AA Mechanic speaks out
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Made it about 4min... dude's passionate but I'm afraid he's going to have a heart attack. Reminds me of this:
Seems bizarre how in Germany unions are strong. Wages are strong. Unemployment is low. Then u look at their CEO's and u realize why. They don't feel a need to make 10,000 times more than the worker. Somehow unions became a nasty word in the land of asshats here in the USA. In this country when unions were at their strongest, wages were up for the majority, crimes was almost non existant, tax revenue was the strongest this country ever saw. U didn't hear about deficits and debt. Somehow a bunch of greedy asshole convinced a bunch of jackasses that unions were killing the country. Somehow they pulled it off and here we stand today while Germany has low unemployment and a majority of happy people.
Unions in this country had their time, that time has passed.
In as much as some want to blame the problems of this country of the outrageous compensation packages of executives/CEO's the problem with the unions are equally as strong.
Unions have went from trying to protect works safety and get them FAIR working conditions as well as FAIR compensation to trying to get them the absolute most they can while legislating that they do the least amount of work for it.
How many employees, including yourself perhaps, would do as little as they possibly can or do JUST ENOUGH to keep their job while expecting top dollar for that effort. Unfortunately in America those employees outnumber the one's that understand if the company isn't healthy then sooner or later everyone is unemployed.
Check with the people in Detroit and ask them if they wished things were handled differently. I willing to be the one's that truly wanted to work and provide a living for their families would tell you they absolutely wish things were different. The one's who don't really want to work and just want the company to feed them a paycheck for as little work as possible still think they got screwed in the deal.
Both sides are guilty. I get sick when I hear about some executive making 8 figures while cutting the workforce, but unions do not understand what it takes to keep a company profitable and thus workers employed.
The cost of raw materials, natural resources and fuel are taking it's toll on even the healthiest of companies in this country. No amount of union involvement will fix that.
If you really want to throw blame around then look up your elected officials in this country. They are the people with the absolute power to change things and simply don't do it.
In as much as some want to blame the problems of this country of the outrageous compensation packages of executives/CEO's the problem with the unions are equally as strong.
Unions have went from trying to protect works safety and get them FAIR working conditions as well as FAIR compensation to trying to get them the absolute most they can while legislating that they do the least amount of work for it.
How many employees, including yourself perhaps, would do as little as they possibly can or do JUST ENOUGH to keep their job while expecting top dollar for that effort. Unfortunately in America those employees outnumber the one's that understand if the company isn't healthy then sooner or later everyone is unemployed.
Check with the people in Detroit and ask them if they wished things were handled differently. I willing to be the one's that truly wanted to work and provide a living for their families would tell you they absolutely wish things were different. The one's who don't really want to work and just want the company to feed them a paycheck for as little work as possible still think they got screwed in the deal.
Both sides are guilty. I get sick when I hear about some executive making 8 figures while cutting the workforce, but unions do not understand what it takes to keep a company profitable and thus workers employed.
The cost of raw materials, natural resources and fuel are taking it's toll on even the healthiest of companies in this country. No amount of union involvement will fix that.
If you really want to throw blame around then look up your elected officials in this country. They are the people with the absolute power to change things and simply don't do it.
Consumer Prices in Germany are 8.33% higher than in United States
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Germany are 2.05% higher than in United States
Rent Prices in Germany are 22.96% lower than in United States
Restaurant Prices in Germany are 12.29% higher than in United States
Groceries Prices in Germany are 7.24% lower than in United States
Local Purchasing Power in Germany is 3.57% lower than in United States
1 Pair of Levis 501 (Or Equivalent) (USA)39.53 (Ger)$108.22 $ +173.77 %
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) (USA)38.59 (Ger)$45.05 $ +16.72 %
1 Pair of Nike Shoes (USA) $73.25 (Ger)$101.53 $ +38.61 %
1 Pair of Men Leather Shoes (USA)$81.43 (Ger)$118.60 $ +45.65 %
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Germany are 2.05% higher than in United States
Rent Prices in Germany are 22.96% lower than in United States
Restaurant Prices in Germany are 12.29% higher than in United States
Groceries Prices in Germany are 7.24% lower than in United States
Local Purchasing Power in Germany is 3.57% lower than in United States
1 Pair of Levis 501 (Or Equivalent) (USA)39.53 (Ger)$108.22 $ +173.77 %
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) (USA)38.59 (Ger)$45.05 $ +16.72 %
1 Pair of Nike Shoes (USA) $73.25 (Ger)$101.53 $ +38.61 %
1 Pair of Men Leather Shoes (USA)$81.43 (Ger)$118.60 $ +45.65 %
PenguinFan,
I do like you or your internet persona at least as we have not met, but I don't want to argue with you on this. I will say that your post may be the most ignorant of the thousands I have read that continue to communicate the same message of the ignorant, mob minded union goldiggers. The fact of the matter is that I am more educated than the current CEO, COO, and all but two on the B of D's. As I am now on my way out after 23 years, I would hazard to say the the Maintenance Bases at AA are currently operating under an FAR 145 FBO License. You want to take a stab at who is responsible for the entire business plan implementation of all four facilities? Without expanding any further because it will upset me, don't ever question the resolve of a union man as simple greed when since 9/11/2001 I have had to involuntarily give up all 12 holidays paid at double time and a half to now receive 5 at time and half. Management all receive 12 paid at double time rates, I have gone from 10 paid sick days to 5 paid at half time. I threw up another week of paid vacation and 17% of my entire salary. Wait not done, I was also forced to relinquish 21% of my benefit package cost, hold on not done yet oh no....on the day I was forced to do that!!! The top 72 executives all split a fat 380,000,000 dollar bonus, they just didn't announce it until after the union signed. Wait not done, then they took injury on duty pay that would supplement your missed time with accrued injury time of up to 80 working days. Yeah, they took all that money and decided we can have 8 days now. Yet we the union continued to work with management until today when they claimed a 386 million dollar loss this quarter due to these incredibly high labor costs that are actually not even in the top ten in the industry. Funny fucking thing is they spent 302 million on bankruptcy advisers this quarter.
You are dead fucking wrong here bro.
I truly hope that helps open peoples eyes to what is happening to the American Craft and Trade working class of this country,
FDC
I get it. So for a few more penny's u would rather see a ton of people on the streets, crime going way up as well as suicide, so a few greedy cock suckers like this Horton shitbag makes a few more million at the misery of others. Nike Shoes lmfao. If Phil Knight sold food and i either had to starve or buy it i would starve. Knight is another in a long list of greedy cocksuckers who made his money at the misery of others.
In as much as this is usually something worth arguing over, I agree with you on this point. I've no need to argue with you over this.
We'll disagree on this one, but I certainly wish you the very best outcome possible.
