This is what you can expect if you sign a card

[Checking it Out]

This is what you can expect if you sign a Card!
Dues Assessment Update
January 4th, 2002
Both Alaska Airlines and Northwest Airlines payroll departments have confirmed that beginning in January of this year, they will automatically withhold the $5.00 per month assessment recently approved by AMFA Local 14''s membership. This automatic payment applies only to those employees on dues check off. It will be taken out of your check in conjunction with your regular monthly dues for a period of 24 months, at which time it will stop.

Beginning in January of 2002, employees who are not on dues check off will be responsible for increasing their dues payments by $5.00 per month for the required 24 months. Failure to do so will result in delinquency and possible termination under the closed shop provisions of the Alaska and Northwest contracts.

This assessment was approved by the membership of Local 14 for the payment of the Local''s legal costs. The money raised by this assessment may only be used for legal expenses and cannot be collected for any longer than 24 months.

Fraternally,
Eric Weeks
President
AMFA Local 14

This think you have this to look forward to! No help from the International and still 40% continues to go to the International!


Qoute dave!
HIRE? YES! Everyone is paying their own invoices! But yet! No Lawyers at the Table during the Majority of Alaskas Negotiations! Who got scewed?

TWU SOLIDARITY!

 

[Checking it Out]

Did not Babbit from ELCAT admit to working for Airline management at the AMFA meeting Friday? Are you going to print that in the next informer newsletter?

In every case he had the Permission from all the Unions before He was allowed to make a presentation! This also encludes amfa!

Mr. Babbit was not paid to be at the meeting Friday!

TWU SOLIDARITY!

 

[RV4]

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On 6/2/2003 7:05:46 PM Checking it Out wrote:


This is what you can expect if you sign a Card!
Dues Assessment Update
January 4th, 2002
Both Alaska Airlines and Northwest Airlines payroll departments have confirmed that beginning in January of this year, they will automatically withhold the $5.00 per month assessment recently approved by AMFA Local 14's membership. This automatic payment applies only to those employees on dues check off. It will be taken out of your check in conjunction with your regular monthly dues for a period of 24 months, at which time it will stop.

Beginning in January of 2002, employees who are not on dues check off will be responsible for increasing their dues payments by $5.00 per month for the required 24 months. Failure to do so will result in delinquency and possible termination under the closed shop provisions of the Alaska and Northwest contracts.

This assessment was approved by the membership of Local 14 for the payment of the Local's legal costs. The money raised by this assessment may only be used for legal expenses and cannot be collected for any longer than 24 months.

Fraternally,
Eric Weeks
President
AMFA Local 14

This think you have this to look forward to! No help from the International and still 40% continues to go to the International!


Qoute dave!
HIRE? YES! Everyone is paying their own invoices! But yet! No Lawyers at the Table during the Majority of Alaskas Negotiations! Who got scewed?

TWU SOLIDARITY!




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And unlike anything that happens with the TWU, the AMFA Local 14 Membership APPROVED the assessment. It even says SO in your posting.

Are you advocating that AMFA go against the wishes of the membership vote like Local 514 wants to do when building a new union hall?

I am laughing my ass off CIO, you are by far the best organizer AMFA has!

 

[Checking it Out]

AMFA

(Fact of Fiction?)


These comments and observations require the reader to do a little thinking. They are aimed at the trade unionist working in the airline industry be they IAM, AMFA or other. They are intended to provoke thought and hopefully intelligent dialogue. A word of caution, you died in the wool; simple syrup drinking amfaholics better take a pass on this one. I think you might find the prospect of thinking an added burden considering that so much of that process is already used up with walking and breathing, proceed at your own risk!

If you look at the NWA/AMFA MCC contract you will immediately notice that wherever the word Union appears it has a strikethrough (union) and it has been replaced with the word association. There may be a very good reason for this and it might be as follows. If you were to take trip to the mountains of northern New England you would find yourself very near the advertised home base of AMFA. When you arrived at the Laconia NH address you would find a prominent real estate operation on the first floor, moving on up to the next level you would encounter doors marked with the names of a small pilots association, a small flight attendants association, and a very small mechanics association the aforementioned AMFA. At a quick glance it would appear they were all branches of the real estate operation. It would also appear to the untrained eye that the real estate Office staff served all of them?

Addressing the title question “AMFA Fact or Fiction†It’s a fact AMFA is around the shops but in reality is there an AMFA? Or could it be that Dell Famine and his beloved AMFA is nothing but a hood ornament, a bobble head doll, so to speak, in the back window of (MAG) McCormick et al? Bought and paid for long ago, trading in his pipe dream and our futures for denaro.

What exactly is an association and why the pains taking effort to make certain there is no confusion with the word union. The answer may lie in Blacks Law Dictionary. Association is described in part as follows:

Association: the act of a number of persons in uniting together for some special purpose or business. It is a term of vague meaning used to indicate a collection or organization of persons who have joined together for a certain or common object…
Blacks law Dictionary, 6[sup]th[/sup] Edition page 121 Col. 2
Fact or Fiction?


The key phrase being …uniting together for some special purpose or business…

Union: An organization of workers, formed for the purpose of negotiating with employers on matters of wages, seniority, working conditions, fringe benefits and the like…
Blacks law Dictionary, 6[sup]th[/sup] Edition page 1532 Col. 1

So why the distinction? What’s the big deal association vs. union? Maybe that question would best be answered in Laconia, good luck.

If you compare AMFA to unions certain things begin to catch your attention. All unions have training programs for shop stewards, business agents, arbitration, negotiations, women’s issues, community action, political action, some more elaborate than others but they all have them. The IAM maintains it’s own training center the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center as well as extension courses at various colleges and universities. The UAW has the Black Lake Facility. As far as anyone can see all the AMFA has is their name on a door in Laconia NH.

McCormick Group reportedly bills AMFA $40,000.00 per month for the administration of the association yet every local, all 6 of them, have to pay for every thing they do. What is the 40 large buying? Not much when you consider some AMFA locals have resorted to raffling off TV’s, shot guns and fining their own members to raise operating money.

AMFA members pay the highest dues in the industry but what do they get for it. Again, not much, there is no training, there is no political action, there are no women’s programs, and community service is non-existent. As far as communications go a four page “aint I great†quarterly Propaganda sheet, and the Internet.

McCormick is the key to this question, National administrator by appointment for at least five years and possibly for life. MAG answers questions put to AMFA, McCormick. Who is at every important company association meeting, McCormick? Could it be McCormick is in the association business? That would explain the lack of anything beneficial to the membership with AMFA’s name on it. These are the questions that have to be put to the yahoos wearing the AMFA tee shirts and the shop rep badges. AMFA fact or fiction, what do you think?


TWU SOLIDARITY!

 

[Checking it Out]

Are you advocating that AMFA go against the wishes of the membership vote like Local 514 wants to do when building a new union hall?

Dave, This was approved at the Membership meetings and if you read the Constitution and by-laws of the local you will see1 A vote is not required for approval to build the Building! also the building has been put on hold!

As far as getting cards signed! Show us the proof! It wasn''t their last Friday!

TWU SOLIDARITY!

 

[RV4]

6404 Total Signed Election Authorization Cards

[url="http://amfa-aa.home.attbi.com/sign.htm"]http://amfa-aa.home.attbi.com/sign.htm[/URL]


How many TWU cards are signed at ANY AMFA represented Airline?

ZERO because the the TWU is the most DOCILE in the INDUSTRY!

 

[Bob Owens]

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On 6/3/2003 6:54:22 PM Checking it Out wrote:



If you look at the NWA/AMFA MCC contract you will immediately notice that wherever the word Union appears it has a strikethrough (union) and it has been replaced with the word association. What exactly is an association and why the pains taking effort to make certain there is no confusion with the word union. The answer may lie in Blacks Law Dictionary. Association is described in part as follows:
Association: the act of a number of persons in uniting together for some special purpose or business. It is a term of vague meaning used to indicate a collection or organization of persons who have joined together for a certain or common object…


Do you mean like the;
ALPA AFL-CIO
IAM AFL-CIO
NATCA AFL-CIO
AFA AFL-CIO
HFIA AFL-CIO
FFA AFL-CIO
IAFF AFL-CIO

Should I go on? Maybe some of the "Unions" could learn a thing or two from these "associations"!







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[Bob Owens]

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On 6/3/2003 6:54:22 PM Checking it Out wrote:



If you compare AMFA to unions certain things begin to catch your attention. All unions have training programs for shop stewards, business agents, arbitration, negotiations, women’s issues, community action, political action, some more elaborate than others but they all have them. The IAM maintains it’s own training center the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center as well as extension courses at various colleges and universities. The UAW has the Black Lake Facility. As far as anyone can see all the AMFA has is their name on a door in Laconia NH.


You left out the TWU?
McCormick Group reportedly bills AMFA $40,000.00 per month for the administration of the association yet every local, all 6 of them, have to pay for every thing they do. What is the 40 large buying? Not much when you consider some AMFA locals have resorted to raffling off TV’s, shot guns and fining their own members to raise operating money.

OK, and what does the International do with our money? Well $3.45 of my money went to buy cars for the International. Another $2 went to Sonny's salary, even more went for Jim Littles salary. I know they moved into some nice digs on Broadway, perhaps the most expensive real estate in the country. They also moved the ATD, I have not seen those digs yet.
McCormick is the key to this question, National administrator by appointment for at least five years and possibly for life. MAG answers questions put to AMFA, McCormick. Who is at every important company association meeting, McCormick? Could it be McCormick is in the association business?

Like Luby?

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[James T. Kirk]

 

[James T. Kirk]

 

[James T. Kirk]

 

[Bob Owens]

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On 6/2/2003 10:40:54 AM AAmech wrote:


They''ll never admit or disclose something like that but its pretty obvious that the millions that amfa pays the McCormicks is helping fund their other ventures. Can you blame them? They found one group of suckers among airline workers (Mechanics). Why not try and find some more? Its easy money!

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Just ask the TWU, IAM, IBT and CWA!

 

[Checking it Out]

This is what you can expect if you sign a Card!
Name: mitchell
Employer: nwa
Location: msp
Date: Friday, May 30, 2003
Time: 06:43 PM
Comments
Why does amfa allow it''s shop committee members to make deals with managers to stay on the property while senior members go off station or to the street? Gary Opdahl thinks he can qualify for the Fuel Metering shop while sitting on his ass in the committee office. Steve Eilers with ''92 seniority was bumped long ago and is still in the ATE shop while senior members leave. Both you guys need to resign from your positions.
We would like those answers also. Every one in building ''B'' should ask them why they think they are special.

This is Equivilant to a Union Officer in the TWU!


TWU SOLIDARITY!

 

[1AA]

CIO, do you ever post any of your own opinions, views, thoughts on this forum? You seem to copy other posts, statements and the negatives of other organizations and groups. How about posting some facts about the great TWU that you so much support. We are all waiting to hear from you. Please the truth and facts, not jiberish.
Tell us how you really feel.....
Good luck....

 

[bingo]

Are you kidding? You know what happens to a person who is blind, all he can do is listen! He will beleive what he has heard. Liers convince themselve that their lies are the truth and no one will change it. Especialy if your threatining to take his comfort away. The TWU sold out the UNION MEMBERS and they know but are convinced that that the majority wanted this! The fact is they Threatened and Deceived the majority. Shame on you TWU....Rome fell and so will YOU!