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<blockquote data-quote="paysnoattn" data-source="post: 461168" data-attributes="member: 18684"><p>The work to keep these mechanics on the payroll is there and always has been. </p><p>The Company routinely operates our aircraft with numerous maintenance deferrals. Deferrals are delayed maintenance work on discrepancies that aren't supposed to jeopardize the safe operation of the aircraft and allows for the dispatch of the aircraft when problems exist. Operational changes can certainly affect how many airplanes are on the ground at any given time at any given gateway. But rather than have a maintenance goal of "Zero Deferrals" and have our mechanics work deferred maintenance items, keeping the work in place in the existing gateways, the Company insists on laying off and shuffling people. The Company's continual attempts to justify "farming out" maintenance work overseas to foreign vendors and repair stations and to permanently eliminate the jobs of American workers here at home, kind of flies in the face of their argument that we have too many mechanics. Wonder if the fact that we've been in contract negotiations for almost 3 years and are just now making some progress towards an agreement has any bearing on UPS's decision to make these changes at this time? I also wonder what we'll have to "trade" to get those jobs back. Just so you know... Aircraft require continual maintenance even when they AREN'T flying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paysnoattn, post: 461168, member: 18684"] The work to keep these mechanics on the payroll is there and always has been. The Company routinely operates our aircraft with numerous maintenance deferrals. Deferrals are delayed maintenance work on discrepancies that aren't supposed to jeopardize the safe operation of the aircraft and allows for the dispatch of the aircraft when problems exist. Operational changes can certainly affect how many airplanes are on the ground at any given time at any given gateway. But rather than have a maintenance goal of "Zero Deferrals" and have our mechanics work deferred maintenance items, keeping the work in place in the existing gateways, the Company insists on laying off and shuffling people. The Company's continual attempts to justify "farming out" maintenance work overseas to foreign vendors and repair stations and to permanently eliminate the jobs of American workers here at home, kind of flies in the face of their argument that we have too many mechanics. Wonder if the fact that we've been in contract negotiations for almost 3 years and are just now making some progress towards an agreement has any bearing on UPS's decision to make these changes at this time? I also wonder what we'll have to "trade" to get those jobs back. Just so you know... Aircraft require continual maintenance even when they AREN'T flying. [/QUOTE]
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