Unions trumpet historic win

[nhboy]

Source.

"Reservation agents at Texas-based American Airlines have voted overwhelmingly for union representation, in a move that labor organizers hailed Tuesday as a historic win in the South.

The agents chose to join with US Airways agents to form a bargaining unit of 14,500 employees at the new American Airlines. The two airlines merged this year, taking American’s name.

The combined group of airport and reservation agents will be represented by the Communications Workers of America-Teamsters Association. The CWA called it “the largest labor organizing victory in the South in decades.”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka also praised the vote, saying it proves that the “future of the U.S. labor movement is alive.”

“It should not be lost on the pundits that most of the nearly 14,500 new union members work in southern states,” Trumka said in a statement. “The right to a voice at work doesn’t have a geographic predisposition, and this victory will energize ongoing organizing efforts in the South.”

Of the 9,000 American Airlines service agents, roughly 86 percent supported the vote for union representation. US Airways agents have been members of the CWA since 2000."

 

[Gilligan]

So, do you think that the always-declining numbers of union members in the private sector have been changed by this? Or not?

 

[Bird Dog]

Another 9,000 people without the brains or initiative to be able to work and get ahead on their own.....

 

[BigBlue]

Another 9,000 people without the brains or initiative to be able to work and get ahead on their own.....

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

 

[b23hqb]

Texas, just like Florida, is not the south. 50 years ago, a little like the south. Today - no way.

 

[Gilligan]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

LOL. So what have we got when the unions are gone completely?

 

[This_person]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

Tell that to the people that used to work at Hostess.

 

[FollowTheMoney]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

Unions have very little to do with it. Though the propaganda machine will have you believe otherwise.
The fall of the middle class is a direct result of the decimation of our manufacturing sector, very loose fiscal policy, ie ZIRP, TARP, QE1, QE2, QE3, and now QE4.
Even if unions did not exist, our manufacturing jobs would still have been off shored to slave labor nation states. ie China etc.
The fall of the middle class is a direct result of the Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel. When a nation allows a private bank to issue that nations currency,
at interest, this kind of economy is the result, and in the end, always.... always fails.

You can believe, and repeat, what you want, but the above is fact.

 

[BigBlue]

The fall of the middle class is a direct result of the Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel. When a nation allows a private bank to issue that nations currency,
at interest, this kind of economy is the result, and in the end, always.... always fails.

You can believe, and repeat, what you want, but the above is fact.

Typical Wall Street BS , Fact is when the middle class is gone so will be Unions, there is a fact .You need to stop living in lala land .

 

[Gilligan]

Typical Wall Street BS , Fact is when the middle class is gone so will be Unions, there is a fact .You need to stop living in lala land .

Speaking of "la la land"...with only a tiny portion of the middle class workforce actually members of any union, perhaps you could explain how unions are anything but irrelevant?

 

[aps45819]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

The fall of the middle class is directly related to the politicians that unions support

They have become a money laundering and extortion racket for the democrats.
If unions are a good thing why do they need to pass laws forcing people to join?

 

[Larry Gude]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

No. The fall of the middle class is directly connected to the cause and effect (supply and demand) of the labor demographics; the working man was set to reap the enormous rewards of declining US birth rates towards the end of the 90's and be able to command a good wage for everything from cutting grass to washing dishes to swinging a hammer to plumbing, roofing, road work, electric work; all the traditional blue collar, union type working man jobs. Jobs you can't export.

Well, the enormous flood of immigrants wiped that out. Trying to unionize and command higher wages while also supporting a flood of cheaper labor is like trying to collect eggs in a basket with no bottom; doesn't matter how many eggs you collect.

This is yet another one of the stunning disconnects of the Democrat party that the GOP has been totally unable to exploit. "We demand higher wages and immigrant labor to make that impossible!" Mostly because the GOP doesn't care about the working man either. But, you celebrate the 'victory' while competition figures out how to export reservation jobs.

 

[Bird Dog]

But, you celebrate the 'victory' while competition figures out how to export reservation jobs.

It will be interesting how many of those 9,000 will still have jobs in two years.

They do not know about India yet.

Other airline reservation workers are obviously there....

 

[Larry Gude]

It will be interesting how many of those 9,000 will still have jobs in two years.

They do not know about India yet.

Other airline reservation workers are obviously there....

I am sure buried in the ACA somewhere is money for union reservation agents. You would not ####ing believe what I found out a few weeks ago is buried in it. As it is something I have not looked up, I'll leave it at that but, suffice it to say that, if true, it is the equivalent of money for unionized reservation agents.

 

[SamSpade]

Of the 9,000 American Airlines service agents, roughly 86 percent supported the vote for union representation. US Airways agents have been members of the CWA since 2000."

THIS was the part that made no sense to me - if one of the two companies that merged was already a union house - then in the merger, the OTHER company's members were choosing something they never had?
I don't see how this is some triumphal "win". A unionized company merges with one that isn't - and the other half says ok, we'll join the union. Well, jeez, practically half of them were already in.

 

[BigBlue]

I am sure buried in the ACA somewhere is money for union reservation agents. You would not ####ing believe what I found out a few weeks ago is buried in it. As it is something I have not looked up, I'll leave it at that but, suffice it to say that, if true, it is the equivalent of money for unionized reservation agents.

LOL , keep this up and you will have to take the weekly drug testing all over again !

 

[BigBlue]

The fall of the middle class is directly related to the politicians that unions support

They have become a money laundering and extortion racket for the democrats.
If unions are a good thing why do they need to pass laws forcing people to join?

LOL, the answer just proves how stupid your first statement was .Politicians are afraid of Unions so they create laws against them .

 

[Larry Gude]

LOL, the answer just proves how stupid your first statement was .Politicians are afraid of Unions so they create laws against them .

Other than the politicians who create laws for them?




How long before the aliens come back to get your dumb ass or did they ditch you here?

 

[PeoplesElbow]

LOL, people are just getting smarter , the fall of the middle class is directly related to the fall of Unions .

Related but not caused. It is related because jobs that are typically union jobs are disappearing, either completely are are being sent offshore because we don't want dirty. noisy factories here.

 

[intertidal]

The fall of the middle class is directly related to the politicians that unions support

They have become a money laundering and extortion racket for the democrats.
If unions are a good thing why do they need to pass laws forcing people to join?

Name one "law" that forced anyone to join a union. Don't include fees charged for representation and collective bargaining; actually cite what you claim: true union membership forced by some "law".