Dear President Hoffa, I recently received reports from the field that one of your organizers was found forging the names of American Airlines M&R employees on IBT authorization cards. I asked my staff to investigate this matter. they have reported that a source inside the teamster headquarters has confirmed these allegations, and I have also…
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Teamsters Promise…
Teamsters Keep Promising They Will Get What the TWU Has Already Negotiated For You The Teamsters claim… They will get you the 4.8% equity stake that is exclusively controlled by the TWU to distribute to the groups we represent. To the contrary, the TWU will never allow the Teamsters to determine how our 4.8% will…
The Teamsters Divided United Mechanics
Teamster Local split in two. Members divided by the spelling of last name In 2008, when the Teamsters raided AMFA and started representing the workers at United Airlines, they promised the mechanics that they would soon reap the benefits of Teamster “power. It turns out that UAL mechanics became the victims of a divide and…
Your Union: Mechanic to Mechanic…
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More Teamster Baloney
The IBT claims that they do not have any responsibility for all of the work outsourced by UAL to China. They also claim that the handover of 100 aircraft for heavy maintenance in China celebrated by UAL management in the picture we distributed did not happen on their watch. That is baloney. The Teamsters were certified…
Teamsters Lack Core Values on Seniority Protection
The Teamsters recently distributed a leaflet bragging about their “core values” when it comes to seniority integration. The Teamsters’ record tells a much different story. As reported on Reuters Legal News (see below), a federal court found that the Teamsters Union and Republic Airlines unlawfully deprived hundreds of former Midwest Airlines flight attendants of their…
Scope Clause Language – TWU Versus The Other Unions
The TWU scope clause (Article I) has changed in the newly ratified September 12, 2012 M&R agreement. While the TWU negotiating committee pushed for maintaining the previous language that kept approximately 90% of maintenance spend in-house (includes TAESL as insourced work), the bankruptcy (BK) process made that an impossibility. Every airline that has gone through…
Comparing The TWU Bankruptcy M&R Agreement To Other Unions
Since November 2011, we have been forced to respond to AMR’s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This is obviously not the first time that an airline used bankruptcy to abrogate labor agreements. Managements at United, America West, US Airways, Northwest Airlines, Continental, Frontier, and Delta have all taken labor unions to federal…
President Little Speaks Out on IBT Raid
Dear Brothers and Sisters: I recently sent you an update on the TWU’s efforts to mitigate the impact of bankruptcy on our membership. We continue to work through every means possible to improve wages, benefits scope and opportunities for our members. In the past week alone we were able to gain an additional quarter of…
IBT and United, Outsourcing…
The Teamsters claim they can stop the outsourcing of aircraft maintenance. But, where were the Teamsters when United held the big party to celebrate its 100th aircraft to undergo a heavy maintenance check at the Ameco maintenance repair hanger in Beijing, China? This celebration took place in May 2011, well over a year ago. How…