Vortilon said:
No argument here. I would say that this post above, about sums it up.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, why don’t you read the TWU Constitution first before you start speculating and prove it.
As for AMFA, in the past UAL membership and, led by the overhaul group, threw AMFA off the property and haven’t brought them back.
But UAL isn’t the only story. There is, of course, NWA, Horizon, ATA, and Mesaba. AMFA in 2003 represented seven carriers and 25,000 members. Now they represent two carriers and approximately 3000 members. But, that doesn’t matter because it’s all the IAM’s fault or the fault of the other evil industrial unions.
[SIZE=14pt]And the Seham law firm? Isn't that the firm that bragged about bringing in the B scale for the AA pilots in the 80s? Martin Seham wrote proudly of this accomplishment in Cleared for Takeoff: Airline Labor Relations Since Deregulation.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt] As general counsel to the Allied Pilots Association (APA), the independent certified representative of the American Airlines pilots, I was close to the negotiations that resulted, in 1983, in one of the earliest realization
[SIZE=14pt]—Martin C. Seham[/SIZE]