odie01
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Article 42 is just one of many, but the most critical to our careers, and Tulsa gave it away!!! Its not your fault Donna, its your lame ass leadership. Good luck xoxoxobubba, spellcheck is only one button
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Article 42 is just one of many, but the most critical to our careers, and Tulsa gave it away!!! Its not your fault Donna, its your lame ass leadership. Good luck xoxoxobubba, spellcheck is only one button
Anomoly.I guess you prefer China? Especially when your base isn't affected...or so you thought....
Analinme, we've been through this a hundred times Give it up shitbirdNO I DO NOT. But an excellent point. UAL was given the right to send our work to China. This was done while we were represented by amfa. See the pattern??
Anomoly, I see a pattern throughout the industry. Outsourcing of most heavy maintenance. Despite what the yes voters believe AA will do the same and we are represented by the TWU. While this is going on, our line mechanics will be far behind our peers for at least 3 years.
Would AMFA have stopped the outsourcing? Absolutely not. But would the line guys lower than industry pay be subsidizing overhaul jobs that no other airlines have. Probably not.
Just a difference of opinion. I think the higher skilled, higher liability jobs should be compensated accordingly.
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After seeing some of the responses here to AMFA I now realize bringing another union like AMFA is a pipe dream. Tulsa would rather bend over and grab their ankles and allow the twu/ AA to do as they please with the amts. I feel sorry for all the hard working mechs of this company.
Speaking of copying other airlines as far as maintenance goes....WHAT DO ALL THE OTHER CARRIERS, BOTH LOW COST AND POST BANKRUPT LEGACY CARRIERS DO?
OUTSOURCE OH WORK!
Yeah, it probably is a typical AMFA response. And yours would a typical non-Amfa response. Like I said its just a difference of philosophies. Of course any job can be outsourced (except upper management of course). We can agree I think that no union will stop a management that wants to outsource. It has been my opinion since I hired on at AA 23 years ago that mechanics would do better with a union representing mechanics. A lot has happened in those years and neither union has a perfect track record but as a licensed A & P I think AMFA is better over the long haul.A typical amfa response. You do realize that line mechanics are outsourced too? There are plenty of non licensed mechanics doing our job as well. With vendors operating under FAR 145, as long as the one who signs off the release is ticketed, the others doing the work can be anybody. This is not just an overhaul issue. You are correct however, amfa will do nothing to stop this. They will, like you, only ask for higher wages for the fewer and fewer "highly skilled mechanics".
Good luck with that.
How can ANY union beat the RLA ? Beat that and there is BK court waiting. The deck is stacked against labor.What's Obama supposed to do? Outlaw outsourcing? Our state representatives aren't even interested.Illegal action by every worker at every airline is the only way to stop what is happeneing. That's highly unlikely.Where were the unions? Even non union MRO companies have to compete with offshore chop shops called "Repair Stations"....
Why didn't Obama do something about this in his first two years? TWU put out one press release in 2009 and let the subject die.
Where were we? Were we proactive then? Are we doing anything about foreign repair stations now?