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With vast amount of experience perhaps you can further educate us with you ability to watch airlines fail under your watch. What we don't need is for you to raid our savings with your IAMPF funded or not. You know that pension is not for the members of the former USAir alone. It is IAM and therefore AFL-CIO. It is that entity that the members here at the LAA should fear. The majority of the employees and therefore members of the TWU have dealt with concessions from the time they walked in the door. It is this concessionary posture that the TWU brought upon itself that causes many to seek other representation. When the representative you pay to give better wages and benefits allows it's members to stay at the bottom of the industry only to keep union membership up, with fear as there main message, many are confused. The TWU is good at one thing, the propagation of the negatives and fear, whether it is true or not. Why is there a movement by AMFA at all? The Line Mechanic is just beginning to start down this path of retribution after the Overhaul Mechanics representative has used it's power to push them around. The time is coming and I hope I am retired when the Line Mechanics will find a way to legally separate themselves from Overhaul, because the two groups could not see down the same path. Perhaps it is good that the IAM is here? Maybe they can show the rest of us real unionism?mike33 said:Shame on you guys for letting that happen for 30 yrs. I have been here for 40 yrs and 3 airlines and yes negotiations were tough. I'm not saying that. I am only saying you shouldn't tip your " Mindset " to your enemy. Everyone will not be pleased with the JCBA because everyone has a different objective on what they believe is owed to them. It's a joint effort and all the unhappy Hooplah out in the open does nothing for the hand your negotiators are trying to tip in your favor.