WeAAsles said:
It seems like they're always alluding to there being some type of collusion against them that I never really feel like I get a straight answer on?
I'd like to know if they honestly have a leg to stand on with their hypothesis?
I've tried numerous times to give you an answer, but you either do not want to believe it or can't believe it.
In the good old days before mechanics separated, we all voted as one. We all saw what the other work group was getting. We all got the same percentage raises. So if the mechanics were to get a larger increase in license pay, other work groups might consider that unfair as the mechanics would be getting more. So the majority had the ability to shoot the entire contract down simply on that issue alone.
Now comes 1983, when mechanics started their journey into losing work to either fleet service or even outsourcing, we did not have the majority votes to stop it. So your fleet service forefathers said "HEY WE CAN DO THOSE MECHANIC JOBS DEICING AND RECEIVING AND DISPATCH, FUELING,,ETC." Those good fleet service union brothers and sisters had no regard for the mechanics' losses.
So WeAAsles, do you see how this played out? We had no mechanics as local presidents or really any local board level officials to represent us. But yet people like you accuse mechanics of blaming others for our predicament.
I recall in the 70''s what the pay difference was between a topped out fleet service and a topped out mechanic...Do you want to know how much? $1.50.......$1.00 for BOTH licenses and $.50 for wage rate....
Next on the TWU's agenda was to pit TUL OH against the line to ensure their control would endure. You dismiss this as either a lie or just plain good old fashioned BS, but this is the way it is. When the line mechanics complain about it,
people like you accuse us of simply blaming others for our predicament. The famous TULE ROLL CALL vote is no longer the nuclear option. All of a sudden T-town doesn't think roll call is such a good idea anymore.
And the reality is that we got our own locals because of the AMFA threat..Why would the TWU do otherwise?
So you're asking if any of us have leg to stand on regarding the treatment of AA mechanics by the TWU? I've given you the simplest explanation I can give.