Your claims are getting more desperate by the day.Checking it Out said:
Eastern- While IAM workers were on strike, Hudson General-also IAM were unloading EAL airplanes.
Not only did the AFL-CIO affiliated unions fail to rally around the EAL workers and broaden the struggle after the government made obvious moves in favor of Lorenzo, but the IAM had their own members doing struck work!
UAL makes more than we do, especially when you figure in Holiday pay and the extra week of vacation they have.
The fact is that AA has had the lowest maint labor costs for twenty years. When the TWU gave AA a twelve year progression to Top pay other airlines were only able to get a five year progression. Eventually, due to constant pressure from AMFA the TWU was forced to get a five year progression. But in the meantime the company saved billions in wages compared to their competitors. In other words our members gave back billions in wages that they should have earned.
The pressure to outsource was primarily driven by the needs of these airlines to compete with the biggest airline-American Airlines. So what did the TWU do-they lowered the bar again, just like they have been doing for twenty years.
AMFA raised mechanics pay from $25/hr to $35/hr.
If you look at the graph AAmechanic pay vs CPI you can see the path the TWU has chosen. Concessions. Concessions in bad times, concessions in good times. The period of that graph span two of the largest economic expansions this country has seen, yet our real pay is around 30% below where it was.
Looking at our career over the long term could only lead to one logical conclusion. We need a focused, craft specific union to alter the direction that the TWU has led us in for the last twenty years. Lower wages and massive layoffs. Isnt that what the TWU got us, over the last twenty years?
What happened to all the A&P mechanics in Cleveland, Buffalo and all the other line stations where AA used to have A&P mechanics? Isnt it true that despite the fact that AA has more than doubled in size, and increased service to many, many more destinations that there are fewer stations staffed with A&P mechanics today than there were in 1980? Have you figured in how many jobs were lost since then because of the fact that this union-the TWU, gave the company every concession they ever asked for?
The fact is that AMFA is a union founded by and run by mechanics for mechanics while the TWU has no interest in promoting our profession and has done everything within their power to transfer work away from A&P mechanics to other lower paid TWU members. They have entereed into a cozy relationship with management and they are more than willing to destroy our profession as a means towards their goal of increasiong overall membership.
The average TWU member makes $15/hr. In good times and bad this figure will not vary by much(however if we leave this number will drop considerably).
The average AMFA member makes over $30/hr.
Which union does a better job in getting their members better pay?
UT
UAL_TECH
