What a load of amfa CRAP!!! This contract was ratified! Did you forget that it was even taken to court and the Judge completly agreed as he tossed the amfa supporters and their silly arguments out on the street. And where's this "so-called" first offer of a 10% paycut with heavy Fleet Service outsoucing? Stop Lying!! Fleet Service did suffer the heavy outsourcing! Thats what they gave up! Your amfanuts are scary. Your so quick to surrender our scopeclause and give our work away for some short term gain. We can see how well that stratagy worked for amfa at NWA and ALaska. Its going to be much easier to get our sickdays and holidays back than it is for amfa to recapture the work being done at Sasco and Haico!RUM@AA said:In all these posts from CIO, Steve Conell, twuer and so on I always notice one thing missing. We can argue that it could have been worse in bankruptcy and AA held a gun to the TWU's head etc. But the bottom line for me is this.
This contract was not ratified by a legal or valid vote of the membership! 3200 members in good standing were unable to secure PIN numbers (per TWU Informer). Jim Little called the vote "tainted" and said we must re-vote. Never did. It just got jammed down our throats!TWU violated the President's Council Bylaws by not providing a T/A and 30 days for the membership to review it prior to voting. :down:
Not to mention the fact that the company's first offer was 10% pay cut for M&R but heavey outsourcing of Fleet Service (like most of the competition), to which the TWU said NO WAY! (too great a dues loss).
I have survived the TWU's 1989 sell-out, 1995 sell-out and 2003 sell-out.
I don't want to experience another and that is why I don't "participate". It is a total waste of time. You'll never remove Sonny Hall and I'm not willing to just wait around for him to die or retire just so the next suck-up sell-out good ole boy can step into that dicatator's shoes.
You'll never change the TWU for the betterment of M&R. Fleet Service comes first, M&R gets sold-out.
AMFA NOW!