They fail to remember who was representing when the agreement for the outsourcing was made. You are correct it was the IAM representing when they agreed to the increases in outsourcing, cut in pay and bennies. After the IAM agreed to the concessions, AMFA was brought in and "inherited" existing contract that was already agreed to by IAM. AMFA just happen to be there when the IAM concessions took effect. Then AMFA saw what was happening and nego some better changes but was unable to fix the outsourcing, pay and bennies cuts and was able to nego better rules and restrictions.
The exact same thing happened here at SWA with the teamsters gettincame g fired. AMFA "inherited" the teamsters previously nego outsourcing, foreign outsourcing etc... And AMFA came in and promptly renego some better rules, regs and restrictions to those teamster previously nego wide open outsourcing, and of course, just like in the UAL ordeal AMFA caught the blame as they were the "inherited" union coming in.
In each case it was AMFA coming in "AFTER" the previous unions (IAM @ UAL, and IBT @ SWA) already agreed to said outsourcing and foreign outsourcing pay and bennie cuts.
Whomever you are arguing with doesn't have a clue what went on and/or is just trying to deface AMFA as much as possible because they are so discuntled over AMFA removing and improving the situations. Mechanics in the industry actually know exactly how everything went down at UAL, SWA and even NWA back in the day. All these made up stories and misinformation about AMFA is just propaganda to try and discredit AMFA's reputation.
It is hard to follow who you were in discussions with but I am sure it was one of the three I have on ignore. Either way, one is just butt hurt that his almighty teamsters were fired from here, and the other 2 are just non mechanics and know nothing and TWU/IAM planted minions to try and crash AMFA card drives. Most out here already know this.
Sorry for rambling but sometimes they have to be reminded of what really went on. The ignore feature is a great tool Ford.
Can't wait to get my ballot to send back so quickly.