Topic: American''s Unfair Treatment of TWA Family

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[] We AA employees tried to warn you about AA and the AA management before you were bought out.I am a 15 year plus AA employee and the AA management does not even treat each other properly.In Tulsa at aircraft maintenance the floor level supervisors have to be hired off the street because we who have experience observe how management is treated and will not take the job.We have supervisors with 4 months at AA trying to supervise 20 years plus mechanics who have worked many different aircraft and various types of maintenance experience.Imagine the results of a situation like this and what is worse is that AA management has not made a SERIOUS effort to correct this.Welcome to AA.[:bigsmile:]

 

[twaokc]

dogdriver,
and neither was TWA until Carty made it a condition on the purchase agreement......

[:devil:] [:devil:] [:bigsmile:] [:bigsmile:]

 

[dogdriver]

Tools,
When you dovetailed Ozark, were they bankrupt?

 

[bagsmasher]

Yeah, that's it. Carty bankrupted TWA. Who do you nut case's blame their previous bankruptcy filing on Bob Crandel?
Let's see, declare BK and get AA interested, or declare BK a little later and liquidate. I would guess Compton made the right choice.
TWA was a FAILING AIRLINE for years. Some of you should really seek professional help.

 

[FA Mikey]

Thats because TWA IAM is his cholesterol

 

[twaokc]

Bags,
You are the one that has about had a heart attack over the AA purchase of TWA.

 

[twaokc]

Mike, that is a good one.

 

[bagsmasher]

If Carty had listened to his unions, this would have never happened, and guess what? ALL TWAer's would be on the street right now, and the scraps of TWA would have been picked up for next to nothing.

 

[twaokc]

JFK777,
and just how safe is that??????????[:knockout:]

 

[JFK777]

TWA was a failing airline for years. Its employees have definitely had it hard and have been underpaid. An 80% paycheck is better then no paycheck, all TWAer's got a big raise 1/1/02. I just wish someone from TWA would say "thank you" AA, instead TWA curses AA for buying it and saving it. If TWA wants to curse something curse Icahn or the TWA management that sold the airline to Icahn. May be Frank Lorenzo, the other bidder back in 1984, would have been a better choice or may be not. AA saved TWA and ST. Louis, but TWAer are now part of a healthier AA family with job as secure as they can be in today's airline industry.

 

[mojo13]

I'm from TWA and I say thank you AA.
Now lets get on with saving this airline from a similar fate.[:bigsmile:]

 

[twaokc]

Bags,
If Carty had listened to the Unions, there would probably not even be an AA right now. Unions should be there to protect the employee, not try and tell management and the stockholders how to run the company. Unions are great for what they were created for, but one of those was not for management of a company.[:devil:] [:devil:] [:devil:]

 

[TOOLS]

"If I am made to walk the plank by a pirate, it is vain for me to offer, as a common-sense compromise, to walk along the plank for a reasonable distance. It is exactly about the reasonable distance that the pirate and I differ. There is an exquisite mathematical split second at which the plank tips up. My common-sense ends just before that instant; the pirate's common-sense begins just beyond it. But the point itself is as hard as any geometrical diagram; as abstract as any theological dogma." G.K Chesterton

How is it the employees fault what the company compells us to do? I work(ed) for TWA and now for AA, but the direction of the company for success or failure is not in the direct control of the bargining unit(s) but in the hands of management.

AA management saw the value in TWA and acted in cooperation with TWA management to put together a deal. TWA declared bankruptcy as part of that deal. The value that TWA brought to American is obvious,those that would say otherwise are simply uninformed or attempting instigation and illwill.

All bargining unit employees will some day have to join in some majority decision. The divisions that currently exist must be placated for the unions to have any positive direction in the future. Sadly this wound (seniority integration)is still deep and bloody with a poor prognosis.

 

[Phantom]

by twaokc
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JFK777, and just how safe is that?

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Perhaps you can ask AICA to give you a loan, or maybe they'll cover your medical, or maybe even the Brady bunch will just go right on in and bargain a deal with Brundage to save your job.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

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Now lets get on with saving this airline from a similar fate.
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I couldn't agree more.I am sick and tired of the bleating coming from both sides.There is ONE airline that we ALL need to focus on here.

You know, the one that pays ALL our salaries at this point in time.The one that ALL of our collective futures are tied to,anyone remember that airline?


But, if it makes you feel better to continue to live in the past and point fingers at each other,please do.Just do it in a PM, so the rest of us that actually give a rat's ass about the future of American Airlines don't have to read the same repetitive posts over and over and over and over......
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