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And now it's the F/A's are doing their Informational picketing with support from the pilots and mechanics as well as other groups not even in contract negotiations at this time. You know it is sad to watch this airline diminish in the way it has for the last several years and still getting worst. We must keep these IP's going strong and keeping it alive. Houston is having one this month and I hope many from Dallas can support and attend as they did for us up here in Dallas. Hoping the pilots and F/A's join in on this one too...swamt said:And more unions join in on the "No-confidence" vote for the leaders of SWA. Pretty bad when about 40K employees out of not quite 50K vote No-confidence in the 2 leaders. And take note, unions that are not in negotiations are also voting no-confidence of the CEO and the COO. So not so much just the unions trying to gain some sort of "leverage" at the nego table...
Press Release: Southwest Airlines’ Four Largest Unions Join Together in Demand for New Leadership
August 3, 2016 -- (DALLAS) – Boards of directors from the four largest unions at Southwest Airlines, representing nearly 38,000 of SWA’s approximately 50,000 employees, all completed votes of “no confidence” in the CEO and COO of the airline. The representative organizations include the flight attendants (TWU 556), mechanics (AMFA), pilots (SWAPA), and Ground Operations (TWU 555) employees.
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Well said sir. Agree 100%...Birdman said:I find it unreasonable in times of extraordinary growth and profits to be asking for financial concessions from mechanics considering the double didget growth in our CEO's pay, which includes generous stock options, since 2012. The terms "unsustainable" and "safety issue" used as justification for certain "must haves" is ludicrous and insulting. I'm certainly open to common sense operational changes that would decrease flight cancellations and delays but at this time I'll be taking a hands off approach to language that removes thousands of dollars from my paycheck. Our contract is certainly unique in this industry and has drawn many talented mechanics away from Southwest's competitors with many years of valuable experience. Our sacrifice for leaving a high seniority position at the legacy carriers to start "at the bottom" is being met the outright hostility and disrespect. Mr. Kelly, I don't begrudge you your pay as you've been instrumental in building an awesome airline so please, don't begrudge mine.
Agree. The co. keeps stating that they need to have "all" the language asks or there would be no economics package. Then so be it. We'll just keep our current contract as is. They are very unreasonable asks, and the co. knows this. AMFA has been making the most moves here, it's time for the co. to move and back off the unrealistic language asks. I mean hell, look at the profits with the current language, there is no economic reasons for their asks and they know this.Birdman said:Perhaps the company's abrupt departure from negotiations was due to the United newsflash. Ok Mr. Kelly, it should be quickly confirmed that the industry has caught up. You have the power to close bitter protracted negotiations with your mechanics by simply compromising on unreasonable language demands, some of which are economically concessionary and others who's long term effects have yet to be determined.
