After finally getting up to speed with my favorite thread on BC, so many great pics were posted there, I decided to get up to date with this one. What's this company coming to. Where is the legacy that Jim Casey left us. It's all gone, and why. Becuase everyone is chasing the almighty buck, instead of realizing that chasing the money paying customer, with an excellent service, unmatched by any other company, will allow us all to prosper. After some boneheaded management decided to offer a crappy contract in 97, or at least that's what we were told, and a Union Leader, trying to make a name for himself, chose a stirke, instead of letting the members decide if the company offer was worth a vote by the members it affected, the customer committment that made this company great, went out the window. The middle 90's showed some promise. The management showed a willingness to compromise with the hourly employees. It seemed like we were all striving for great customer satisfaction. It felt so differant than the late 80's. Any package driver that was around a few years before and after the strike knows full well what I'm talking about. After the strike, the company changed. The customer didn't matter like they used to. Was it because they really supported the hourlies during the strike. What did management expect. Your hourlies, but mostly the package drivers, are the ones making them happy. Doing all the little extra things to show them what a great company we were working for. When their drivers told them the company was treating us like crap, with a crappy offer, yes, an offer we never got to see, of course they were gonna take our side. When they tossed you from their stores, and told you to come back after you settled the strike, you turned on them. Don't deny it. Plenty of management/supervisors have admitted it to their emplyees over the past 10 years. You had better find middle ground soon. Before it is to late. To my fellow Teamsters, yes, I do believe that if this band of our brothers, the Arline Mechanics, do have to strike, they will get the full support of the rest of us union brothers/sisters. How can they not? They supported us in our time of need. Just as the pilots did. Some of the posts here say, You already are the higest paid in the industry. You are damm right they are, and so are WE, and so are our PILOTS. Why, because we are the best damm delivery company in the world today, bar none. You want to be the best, you work like the best, and you get PAID like the best. The AM's are fighting for what they deserve, their jobs, their beni's and their pay to remain the best in the industry. The company is outsourcing theire wotk to China and Asia. They are trying the same thing that a lot on non-union companies have been doing for years, creating jobs for low paying sweat shops at the exspense of our jobs here in the USA. We, the American workers created this company, we the American workers should be keeping our jobs, right here in the USA. We Teamsters have been fighting scabs pulling our loads for years, now the AM's are doing the same, support them, as they have supported us. Together we win, devided we fail. One poster on this thread talked about going to WallMart, where she will get better insurance

, hey lady, get a clue. Start organizing your fellow workers to vote the union into your jobs, then you wont need that part time job at WallMart. Do you see us union folks getting lousy health insurance? And we will fight to keep ours that way in the future, just as the AM's are now. I don't feel sympathy for the management folks posting on this thread about having to pay for their insurance either. Just as you get to chose to go into management

, I chose to stay union, where my beni's may be under attack, but they are still intact. Your pay far outways your having to pay some of the cost of your insurance. Good luck Airline Mech's, you've got this Teasmters

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