Originally Posted by
206321
So pilots can understand what management is trying to do to the mechanics:
For every position retired or resigned, they have the right to OUTSOURCE that work to ABC Airplane Maintenance Company.... or Eagle, or whoever.
In other words if there are 30,000 mechanic jobs right now and 1000 retire this year, next year there are 29,000 jobs and the rest is outsourced. It would continue down that slippery slope.
Imagine that if every time a senior pilot hit age 65 and retired, the slot that a new hire would take to replace went straight to the regionals.
The seniority list and pilot group would shrink daily. The seniority list would be half the size in about 5 years.... giving all those jobs outsourced to the regionals. Eventually there would be no mainline jobs left... they would all be outsourced.
You've gotten right to the heart of the matter. At least they're willing to defend their scope. At the end of 2021, Mainline AA is supposed to have 900 hulls, AA commuters 600.
Right now you have an immovable object in the IAM facing off an irresistible force in the Parker/Isom management team and their willingness to outsource everything. Quarter by quarter management by memo with no vision...and here we are.
Best wishes to the mechanics. I'd walk their picket line.