I actually talked to them when they were in Tulsa. I was wearing my AMFA pin and they didn't like it. I told them a lot of the kool aid drinkers were gone and a bunch of bitter, angry, old men were left with no prospect of retirement. A stock clerk went by on a fork lift and I asked why they thought AMTs deserved less sick time benefits than everyone else? "We had to make a lot of tough decisions." was the answer. When I asked how any union can treat one group inside their union differently and push inferior benefits on them I got the "We had to make a lot of tough decisions." So I said it looks like business as usual. I told them that AMTs should have the same benefits as everyone else in the TWU and the TWU members should have at least the same benefits as management who gave up nothing to save the airline. I also asked if the TWU would ever tell the other title groups that there would be no improvement to their pay or benefits until title 1 and title 2 got their sick pay, longevity and the extra 2.5% pay back that was extorted from us in 2003? I got blank stares from that one. Obviously the TWU would never allow us to get any of that back without the other groups getting equal value even though they never gave this stuff up. So much for unionism. And they wonder why we sign AMFA cards?
