As Chairman of Maintenance for TWU, Local 514 I have been asked by the members who are assigned to Hangar 1 & 2 to write and to see the delivery of this letter.
For the past several months there has seemed to be many missteps and misstatements from the entire Management Team in Tulsa. There is no doubt some of these missteps and the overwhelming majority of the misstatements have their roots in Hangars 1 & 2. At first, it seemed to be a coincidence, but now it has become obvious to the members assigned to these areas that it must be either intentional or ingrained in the leadership of the hangars. Attached are examples from your employees of issues that have to be addressed before we can become successful.
While we do not take pleasure in this letter, it has become necessary for the members on the floor to convey that due to the lack of respect and leadership abilities exhibited by the Management Team of Hangars 1 & 2 and the fact that this causes serious concern as to the future of 737 maintenance in Tulsa, the following Members of Local 514 have to inform you that:
We no longer have confidence in this Management Team.
You need to take the immediate necessary steps to assure continued airframe work in Tulsa by allowing us to be the asset we can and will be when there is competent leadership who asks for and utilizes input from the workers on the floor.
I can make available members who are willing to help correct these issues to allow us to be successful again. Contact me when your available to meet with us.
Sincerely,
John Hewitt, Chairman of Maintenance
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- No Ownership – Local Management is too busy pointing they’re fingers at the TWU, each other, or management above them.
- The Company has taken a well oiled machine that had few problems making checks and demoralized them enough that they can’t even come close to making a check on time.
- Instead of dealing with the problem, the company always implements rule changes that punish the entire membership which has become typical of local management.
- The rule changes that the company had to have to make them more efficient, has done nothing but sink morale.
- Current management has put unrealistic expectations on crews to produce an HC2 with retro in 29 days with less headcount and no overtime.
- Most in A.O. Thinks the weekend needs to be split to help pick morale back up.
- Our company is not seeking to bring other work in house, in fact we have turned work away “Allegiant and Fed-Ex”.
- When the company tries to build a new game plan, they do not include the workers “the experts” to help make it a success. Its like its all a big secret until the new plan is rolled out.