Yo AMFA boys,
Viper,
Get in touch with reality! The IAM is currently mounting a card drive at NWA, do you think the 4500 laid –off mechanics signatures will be enough to get a real union back in place there? If they do, do you think that the old contract language and supporting arbitration cases could help to get all the work back that the AMFA language has lost?
AMFAMAN,
Listening to the membership? You guys harp, harp, harp but you play no song! If you and all your other cronies would take your whiney butts down to the hall, get involved and help the rest of the membership run this union, you wouldn’t have a reason to cry! But what fun would that be, right? Even the leaders of this union are volunteers, they started off as a normal member just like everyone else. The difference is, these folks chose NOT to let someone else run THEIR Union. People like you, likely do not vote and if you do feel like that’s the extent of your needed involvement or responsibility and because another group walks up and whispers everything you want to hear in your ear, you take it as gospel. The TWU is about representation, we are about truth, we are about activism, and we are about working people. So quit expecting your union to spoon-feed you (although some is done) straighten your spine and stand a post! Everyone has something to contribute! If you and your boys had been “involved†in being constructive instead of destructive, we’d all be better off.
Rusty,
CIO didn’t hear “this, he read “thisâ€, it came from two letters written by Local 33 Vice President, Ted Ludwig where asks Delle to curtail organizing efforts and concentrate on curing the outsourcing issues. You might want to educate yourself, it might surprise you that AMFA thinks organizing is more important than getting back jobs that they’ve helped to lose.
Buck(Larry),
Yes it is OK, read the by-laws…you vote on them! People like you and AMFAMAN aren’t strong enough union members to run your union effectively! I’d be embarrassed if I were you Buck, You’ve probably more seniority than anyone that posts here and after all these years still choose to be an “armchair quarterbackâ€. You’re always in the background with your own agenda. Tell me, why don’t you “take the lay-offs†instead of recommending that someone else does? You and Dave both, you “talk the talk but when it comes to walking the walkâ€, you won’t! There’s only one reason why, it’s because when it comes to offering up someone else’s misery, you’re all for it, but if it’s your own, you’re a coward!
