A Small World/Potential Scabs

[FXMXC]

I would agree. Not honoring another union's picket lines is one thing, but actively taking part in scabbing is quite another. I'm going to look into it next week and see what the latest is.



Depends on whether it's a concerted action by your union, or just individual action by a few pilots. Concerted action by a union for a secondary boycott is legal under the Railway Labor Act, which is one of the things that makes the RLA superior to the NLRA. We have a right to engage in secondary action to support other crafts and classes.

Yeah well let me interject that I do not nessessarily feel that other unions have to honor my picket line obviously they did not at my former company NWA during the 2005 AMFA mechanics strike. However, my issue was the pilots bent over backwards to make that airline work during that strike by not writing up obvious problems and not making an issue out of dangerous situations like wheel assemblies flying off multiple times during landings and singing the praises of the scabs when during my 17 yr career there I barely got a thank you for making difficult repairs quickly bailing out flight crews and getting them on their way.. And before ATN pilot says anything NOT being in the AFL-CIO should have nothing to do with it. A scab is a scab period.

 

[Bignellyxx]

Yeah well let me interject that I do not nessessarily feel that other unions have to honor my picket line obviously they did not at my former company NWA during the 2005 AMFA mechanics strike. However, my issue was the pilots bent over backwards to make that airline work during that strike by not writing up obvious problems and not making an issue out of dangerous situations like wheel assemblies flying off multiple times during landings and singing the praises of the scabs when during my 17 yr career there I barely got a thank you for making difficult repairs quickly bailing out flight crews and getting them on their way.. And before ATN pilot says anything NOT being in the AFL-CIO should have nothing to do with it. A scab is a scab period.

Not that i was there like you but i have always thought that the NWA pilots didn't honor the mechanics line because of a past action of AMFA that did not support/honor the pilots.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

However, my issue was the pilots bent over backwards to make that airline work during that strike by not writing up obvious problems and not making an issue out of dangerous situations like wheel assemblies flying off multiple times during landings and singing the praises of the scabs when during my 17 yr career there I barely got a thank you for making difficult repairs quickly bailing out flight crews and getting them on their way.. And before ATN pilot says anything NOT being in the AFL-CIO should have nothing to do with it. A scab is a scab period.

Maybe you would have gotten more support if your AMFA leaders had not told Captain Woerth that they didn't "need the help of a bunch of bug-smashers" when he tried to put together a labor coalition at NWA. You don't need the help? Then don't expect it.

 

[FXMXC]

Not that i was there like you but i have always thought that the NWA pilots didn't honor the mechanics line because of a past action of AMFA that did not support/honor the pilots.

Well you are misinformed..ALPA did NOT ask any of the labor and actually asked that we go ahead and continue into work..Moot point really because ALPA didn't need our help and they knew it. NW chose to shut the airline down and lay off front line employees for the most part save a few. Pilot strike was different than ours in that fact that NW spent millions and better part of 2 yrs recruiting scabs to replace us. That is why NW's proposal to us was a 53 percent cut in personnal and 25 percent paycut for the remainder..Do the math do you really think a contract would pass with a 53 percent cut in the mechanic ranks when ratification is 50 percent +1.? It was that way by design to force a strike. Not that way with the pilots..NW was not trying to replace them and bust their union which is what their intention was with us. That aside like I said it didn't bother me that they went to work. It bothered me that the deck was stacked against us from the start by the pilots helping the company bust our union by not writing up obvious problems and not making a issue out of dangerous things that happened there. If they came to work and did their jobs and wrote up ligit problems instead of sitting on them it might not have made a difference in the end but who knows. I learned a lot from that strike. I have to tip my hat to NW. They paid off the right people..An FAA inspector who found multiple problems was reassigned to a desk after NW complained. The media was told by NW you will never get an interview from us again unless you play ball. Labor secretary Elaine Chao was on the NW board and the NMB gave a record release to strike how often does that happen? Plus Bush did not intervene but he did intervene when we threatened to strike in 2001 pre 9/11 when we did all our mx inhouse..Even with all that they barely pulled off but they did.

 

[FXMXC]

Maybe you would have gotten more support if your AMFA leaders had not told Captain Woerth that they didn't "need the help of a bunch of bug-smashers" when he tried to put together a labor coalition at NWA. You don't need the help? Then don't expect it.

Well even I have to admit that little italian OV Del Femine was his own worst enemy at a huge cost to a lot of people. Worked out even better for me..But others didn't fair so well.