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AMFA 10am to 11:30am 6pm to 7:30 pm & Saturday Apr 30th for a Meeting10:00am to Noon At Local 1210815 E. Marshall St. Suite 102Special Guests Mr. O.V. Delle-Femine AMFA National Executive Council Mr. Lee Seham, Esq.
May 24th is quickly approaching. What's so important about May 24th? It is recognized as Aviation Maintenance Technician Day in 39 States. There is a campaign to have all 50 States pass resolutions like the original one passed in California which recognizes Charles E. Taylor's birthday, May 24th 1868, as AMT Day. Charles E. Taylor was the Wright brother's mechanic and is in large part a reason the Wrights and the U.S. can claim to be the first in powered, controlled flight. There is also a resolution to nationally recognize May 24th as AMT Day. This resolution is HRES586 and is sponsored by California Rep. Dan Lungren. You can read this resolution by going to www.thomas.loc.gov. Click on Search Bills & Resolutions, then click Full Text of Bills & Resolutions. Click Bill Number and enter HRES586 in Enter Search. Highlight 108th Congress in the window to the right and hit enter. Please contact your House Representatives and tell them about this resolution and the importance it carries in recognizing Charles E. Taylor's contributions to aviation. The proud craft Charlie started was followed by thousands of skilled professional Aircraft Technicians. This resolution will also honor these proud men and women. With your help contacting your government officials, we will help ensure that this resolution becomes a bill. If you go to the Aircraft Maintenance Technology magazine's web site, www.amtonline.com, you can view a color map of which States have passed their own resolution making May 24th AMT Day. If your State has not passed one yet and you wish to have one introduced and passed please contact kmactiernan@hotmail.com. The safety of one hundred years of aviation, both in peace time and war, have been answered by these skilled craftsmen and women. It is time that they are recognized. Please pass this along to others so the support for this resolution will grow.
Welcome American Airlines Mechanic & Related Employees, The AMFA@AA Organizing Committee is currently engaged in the next phase of an AMFA@AA organizing effort which began in the Fall of 1998. This current Card Drive began the day after the NMB handed down a highly politicized, contrived decision on September 21, 2004. The NMB decision was based on longstanding relationships between big business (airlines), big labor (TWU, IAM, and IBT) and the U.S. government. This kind of chicanery can be evidenced by the ignoring of data supplied by AMFA and AMFA@AA Organizers who were busy refuting baseless company and TWU claims which added thousands of ineligible employees to our craft and class of Mechanic & Related employees as previously defined by the NMB! Even with their addition of thousands of previously unidentified employees the count of authorization cards came up only 27 cards short of an election! WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED A REPRESENTATION ELECTION!!!As with United Airlines and Northwest there were more than one unsuccessful drive for a Representation Election for AMFA before these two carriers Mechanic & Related employees were successful in ousting their failed union, the IAM. Southwest had an ongoing drive for over 10 years battling their failed Teamsters representation before going AMFA. We understand there is uncertainty with change, but the Mechanic & Related employees at 8 different airlines, the majority previously represented by other unions, including the TWU, have decided to band together under one hat to fight for their rights together. LETS JOIN THE FIGHT INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT TO OTHERS TO DEFEND US WHILE OUR COMPANY OWNED UNION DRAGS THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY DOWN WITH THEIR SUBSERVIENT, COMPANY UNIONISM!!! We have perverted the airline industry with the most grievous concessions over the last 25 years!! Lets help our industrial Brothers and Sisters instead of allowing AA through their wholly owned lackey, the TWU, to consistently pervert our wages, our benefits, and our work rules to the lowest levels in the industry.The AMFA membership, and their leadership, at NWA has sent a strong message, not only to NWA but to the entire Industry, that they know it is far easier for the Company to recall workers than it is for the Union to attempt to regain concessions through NMB 'delay-gotiations'. We applaud them for their foresight, solidarity and strength! The AMFA membership at UAL resoundingly told the company that the previous concessions were sufficient! The Bankruptcy Judge, as well as the company, were surprised by this. We weren't. Aircraft Mechanics throughout the Industry are tired of being blamed for the problems caused by MIS-MANAGEMENT! AMFA Organizers are currently meeting at AFW/DFW and Tulsa to help jumpstart this current Card Drive. If you had previously signed a card we ask you to sign again. This will ensure that your card is valid given that all cards submitted on March 12th, 2004 by the AMFA to the NMB (NMB submission 31 NMB 111), prior to the 'final decision' of September 21st, 2004 have been voided as of that 'final decision' date! (According to NMB rule 1204.6 (b) (2)) This is important to note because some unscrupulous TWU officials are already spreading the word that "Your cards are still Good if they are only one year old" knowing full well the case that the cards are obsolete if previously submitted to the NMB. WHY DO OUR TWU OFFICIALS CONSTANTLY ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE US??? We urge you to contact us if you are willing to step up in your area or station to help with this organizing effort. We organizers will assist in any way possible to help you become a better educated unionist and join in the fight for; Just & Democratic Representation!! Please e-mail us at amfa-aa@comcast.net if you are interested in helping with the current Card Drive or if you have any questions ! Remember, ALL CARDS SUBMITTED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 21st, 2004 MUST BE RE-SIGNED! |
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Remember, these cards EXPIRE after
ONE YEAR and MUST be re-signed to be valid!
