Dude, I told you - just relax.
AMFA is being discussed - or "sold" if you will.
Here's a little secret ... YOU are helping to sell it.
Yes, with every piece of revisionist history you and your friends try and pass off concerning the industrial unions supposed "representation" of mechanics, with every piece of tired regurgitated anti-AMFA propaganda, with every ridiculous story you try and pass off as to why you're really here. Yes, with every disingenuous post that you, and NYer, and 700 etc post, with every ridiculous attempt at dodging responsibility when your misinformation and hypocrisy are exposed,.....all this time, cards are being collected. Thanks to you.
So if I'm helping the cause then why are so many of the posters here asking me to leave and stay out of it? At least you seem to be saying that mine and others participation seems to be helping your cause? Glad to be of any help I can then.
Now this might come as a shock - I'll say here right now AMFA might not get in .... this time.
No shock. The real shock is that this hasn't come sooner. Especially after the concessions of 2003. That was the moment of truth that should have propelled the cause to success.
Its been posted many times how long AMFA has been trying to get into AA. Well guess what, they spent alot of that time trying to get into UAL too. I myself was involved in four AMFA drives dating back to the 80's. While I don't think this forum was available then, we did have a mechanics forum on a website called "The-Mechanic.com" and you know what? There was a handful of IAM faithful there telling us the exact sort of thing your posting now. And you know what? We organized, we'd fail, and organize again, and fail, and organize again, and with each failure the IAM faithful would only become more and more brazen with their lies, just like here. They'd ask the same rhetorical questions, make the same ridiculous assertions, on and on for years, until one bright July day in 2003 we won.
So while I'm sure you're already crafting your reply eager to point out that AMFA was indeed replaced aprox 5 years later,
Why do I need to when you just did?
as the point was also made earlier and ignored (Ignoring anything is stupid. You don't learn things through ignorance which is where the word ignored comes from) .... we did not return to the IAM. I have read many many times over on this board and this very thread AA mechanics have told you and others, they are simply fed up with the TWU and/or the IAMs representation or lack thereof. This of course you and others always try to dismiss, never realizing just how real that dissatisfaction is and the full weight in decision making it carries. It is that lackadaisical approach coupled with the same substandard representation that will eventually result in the TWU/IAMs removal ... perhaps it won't be this time perhaps it will. Whatever happens, its safe to say its no longer a matter of "if", but "when"
In all honesty the word "IF" seems to be more appropriate since the word "WHEN" has been bandied about since 1962. That's only 52 years. 2 years before I was even born.
