MCI is Open for Business

[Rogallo]

These guys get something that is priceless too Bubba.  FREEDOM.  They no longer have to deal with AA or the TWU or any of the other crap they had to live with for long before 2001.  They can now move on and hopefully this company treats them right.  Lord knows they have earned it.

 
Looking forwad to that myself in the very near future!

 

[MetalMover]

These guys get something that is priceless too Bubba.  FREEDOM.  They no longer have to deal with AA or the TWU or any of the other crap they had to live with for long before 2001.  They can now move on and hopefully this company treats them right.  Lord knows they have earned it.

Yea big old bad AA....Now they're willing to settle for less money, less benefits and no union..Big tough IAMers willing to work no union....Good luck.

 

[OldGuy@AA]

Yea big old bad AA....Now they're willing to settle for less money, less benefits and no union..Big tough IAMers willing to work no union....Good luck.

They did not have much choice.  AA laid them off.  

 

[OldBubba]

Please when your wife and kids are hungry, and a company offers you 28 dollars an hour or roughly $58000 a year with healthcare that pretty much matches AA. You're going to go to work. $50,000 a year job really is not too easy to come by, but you don't know that until your on the street.

 

[MCI transplant]

Yea big old bad AA....Now they're willing to settle for less money, less benefits and no union..Big tough IAMers willing to work no union....Good luck.

You call the TWU a Union? ------- Hell, it's all the exTWAers  have gotten from them is an screwing! Besides, they're coming home!

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Don't forget to give 100% again and do a great job!

I seriously hope given the sensitive nature of aircraft safety he does give 100% and does a great job.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Looking forwad to that myself in the very near future!

I hope it is voluntary. I would hate to see you lose your job.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

You call the TWU a Union? ------- Hell, it's all the exTWAers  have gotten from them is an screwing! Besides, they're coming home!

I don't. I call them control.

 

[MetalMover]

You call the TWU a Union? ------- Hell, it's all the exTWAers  have gotten from them is an screwing! Besides, they're coming home!

Actually I  don't like the TWU....Nor do I like the IAM either.....
I will be voting AGAINST the alliance.

 

[MetalMover]

Please when your wife and kids are hungry, and a company offers you 28 dollars an hour or roughly $58000 a year with healthcare that pretty much matches AA. You're going to go to work. $50,000 a year job really is not too easy to come by, but you don't know that until your on the street.

I do not fault anyone for taking the job. i would imagine it is not too bad a salary for that part of the country. As far as being non-union...all i can is say is look at  what unions have done for us, or TO us, for that matter.
My post was that you put the IAM on such a high pedastal, I couldn't imagine going non-union with that loyalty.

 

[Bandit6794]

ATS is like AAR and is always looking for mechanics.28.00 hr plus benifets shud pull some ex-TWA commuters back home. 

 

[bigjets]

You can bet your butt if they can outsource maint at the smaller line stations they will.

They already do, think SNA, MSP, DTW are the latest in a long line of small stations closed to maint. and those mechs in those stations did top quality work. In HNL, I was talking to a mech and he says his company has 17 dedicated mechs to AA flights.


A checks on 777s are done in South American stations, not TWU members.

 

[bigjets]

Yea big old bad AA....Now they're willing to settle for less money, less benefits and no union..Big tough IAMers willing to work no union....Good luck.

Really how well has either union work out for the TWU IAM, xTWA mechs.

First IAM and other TWA unions fight to get Icahn in as CEO
Second, IAM I would say didn't really get a good deal for their membership with the AA acquisition.
Third, e TWU doing what the TWU does.( "if you don't like it, there's no fence between here and United" ) one example.

Why wouldn't they try non union for once. How much worse could it get. They close MCI and are forced to move, or leave the company.

 

[MetalMover]

Really how well has either union work out for the TWU IAM, xTWA mechs.

First IAM and other TWA unions fight to get Icahn in as CEO
Second, IAM I would say didn't really get a good deal for their membership with the AA acquisition.
Third, e TWU doing what the TWU does.( "if you don't like it, there's no fence between here and United" ) one example.

Why wouldn't they try non union for once. How much worse could it get. They close MCI and are forced to move, or leave the company.

Whoa there.....my response was in reference to all the pro IAMers who would gladly replace the TWU if given the chance....but yet would go non-union in this case. I do not FAULT their decision. Just an observation on my part.
FWIW...If my choice is the TWU/IAM alliance or no union....guess what? I'm going NON-union.