Northwest Airlines Strike Blog

Hi I just want to say i support you all. and you all deserve every penny. I posted a comment about saftey i am flying on tuesday. please read under the safty in the air ends with the scabs on the ground. ne ways. i just wanted to say that i know that the corp.is lying. and i do expect to be screwed by this. not by ne fault of ur own or the union. and i know that u probably cannot respond to a passengers messege. but it would be great if someone or one of u all could.
Thank you.

passenger 57
 

Passenger 57,

Thanks so much for your support and encouragement.

Unfortunately, due to legal reasons, I cannot "officially" advise you to fly or not fly on Northwest.

That being said, I can tell you that I personally will not be flying on Northwest nor will any of my family members, until the strike has been resolved and the AMFA mechanics are back at work.

But that is just me...
 

thanks for not doing your damn jobs friday before the strike deadline. You don't deserve a red cent.
 

The human side of me feels terrible for your families...because you are most likely never coming back to work at NWA and the winter is coming sooner than later. The capitalist in me says RIGHT ON to the company for getting the cost cuts in place with AMFA or with out AMFA. I hope each AMFA mech decides to come back...NWA wants you, just not that stupid union that has lead you into the dark hole of unemployment. Godspeed former NWA mechs!
 

I've heard reports of vandalism at DTW. Keys broken off in jetway locks. Keys missing from tugs. Trucks being
incapicitated. Nails put in a tunnel under a terminal. Real professional.
 

The cleaners were averaging $42,000 a year plus $12,000 in benefits. NW was the last airline using in house cleaners with other airlines spending roughly half of what NW was. I realize that it is difficult for the NW cleaners, but I can't really see how anyone could see cleaning airplanes as a permanent career in today's environment. The AMFA members seem to suffer from extreme tunnel vision and are unwilling to look at the current environment and compensation levels of their peers.
 

First PATCO, then AMFA! Go NW!
 

Whats really amazing, is that not one of you ever mention the fact that Doug Steenland, Andy Roberts, and the myriad of executives have been awarded hefty salaries, extravagant bonuses, untouchable retirement packages, that include med and dental, and numerous other perks, all the while, leading NWA to the brink of bankruptcy. Only in America do we reward the clueless Executives for losing money quarter after quarter, while at the same time, destroying the livelihoods and careers of the very people that have spent countless years, supporting, sweating, and even giving back, with no return for that effort I might add, while still trying to make NWA the Best Airline in the country. It's the People, Not The executives, that make a company! It's the exec's that BREAK IT, for their OWN Gain and Greed!

Go ahead and fly on these aircraft maintained by SCABS. I suppose you might think different, when one of these unqualified lowlifes, forget an O-ring and as you suddenly hear everything get extremely quite as the loss of oil shuts your engines down and you are now gliding like a rock. Just remember what I once told Rep. Barbara Cubin from Wyoming as she considered HR 145, which gutted FAR 145 to allow cheap overseas parts, "As your ass rapidly descends toward mother earth, be sure to assume the crash position, with your head firmly between your knees, then stretch just a bit further, AND KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE!
Just remember that while all of this is occurring, you did get that seat for $129.00. WHAT A BARGAIN IT WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My family and I, will be safely traveling on any airline, other than Northworst.

Yippe Kye Ayee
 

TO "Git along lil doggie": I assume you are AMFA of some other union trash? If you are NWA AMFA...you won't be able to afford to fly on any airline much less NWA! You people are trash, pure and simple! You have all been mislead by your stupid pathetic little union and the only place you and your trashy little family will be going is to the unemployment line and to the market with food stamps in hand! Godspeed you illogical ape!
 

Godspeed you illogical ape!

Hey, wait a minute. We machinists are supposed to be the knuckledraggers.
 

Anonymous said...
Well my fellow AMT's. I'm beginning to get really sick of the B.S that we put forth. It is time to face the truth about us and our profession. It was not scabs that left over 20 engine oil caps off at NWA during the last 18 months. It was not scabs that drove a 727 off the taxi way in DTW 3 years ago.It was not scabs that left a clamp off of an A320 engine in ORD LAST MONTH. It was not scabs that left a clamp off a DC10 in Orlando a few years back. Both ORD & MCO incidents generated fire warnings by the way. We all make mistakes. Its that simple. It was not scabs that forgot to install chip detector o rings on an Eastern L1011 way back when. Stop kidding yourselves. Im a 20 years NWA tech. Im on strike and out of a job. I hate what this company has become and I am disgusted at the way corporate america is bending us over. But people you better wake up and smell the jet fuel. These scabs are a&p techs. They just happen to have made a lousy choice in coming to work for NWA. But they are a&p's none the less. WAKE UP

2:01 AM


Anonymous said...
Oh ok...Lets keep going here. Hmmm, who filled a DC-9 hydraulic system with soap? Not a scab. NWA and all airline amt's screw up by the numbers. Planes are not that critical. Stop making into something its not. Commercial airliners break everyday and land safely. The systems are redundant and thats a fact.The latest Billings diversion of an A320....SO what. We divert all the time. It happens.Systems fail and the redundancy allows for safe flight. We divert just the same for added safety. Ive seen it all at NWA in my 22.5 years. We technicians screw up, the planes parts screw up...IT HAPPENS PEOPLE. It is extremely rare that an accident occurs from a poor trained or for that matter a highly trained tech.Ive seen techs employed at NWA that you wouldnt want working on your lawn tractor much less an airplane.There are loser scabs and there are loser union techs. ITS A FACT!! ADMIT IT AND FIND ANOTHER BATTLE TO FIGHT IN THIS WAR AGAINST NWA. LETS BE SMART AND GET REAL. WE WILL NOT CONVINCE THE COMPANY THAT WE'RE THE ELITE ALL MIGHTY TRAINED PREFESSIONALS. THEY HAVE BEEN SEEING OUR SCREW UPS FOR MANY YEARS AND WE HAVE COST THIS COMPANY MILLIONS IN DAMAGED AIRPLANES. NO HUH.....REMEMBER THE A320 IN LGA ? OR THE LOSER IN JFK THAT DROVE THE 747 INTO THE TERMINAL? WHAT ABOUT ALL THE RUNWAY INCURSIONS ??????????? THEY WERENT SCABS.THE FAA DAMN NEAR SHUT OUR TAXI OPERATION DOWN BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD SO MANY INCURSIONS ON RUNWAYS. DAMN YOU PEOPLE...WAKE UP....ITS NOT A SCAB THING. THESE SCABS ARE SCUM OF THE EARTH AND I WILL SPIT ON THE FIRST ONE I SEE....BUT ALL IM SAYING IS LETS BE REALISTIC IN OUR CAUSE. HEY KEVIN...HOW DID THAT PANEL DEPART THE 747 AGAIN? YEAH...YOU KNOW....THE BIG PANEL ON TOP OF THE WING ? HEY MIKE.....HOW DID THE 727 FALL ON ITS NOSE ? HEY BILL.....YOU MANAGER SCUM...WHEN YOU WERE A TECH....HOW MUCH FUEL DID THE 747 HAVE TO DUMP WHEN IT RETURNED FROM FLIGHT BECAUSE OF THAT GEAR PIN YOU LEFT IN ? OH AND I JUST CANT IMAGINE THE NUMBER OF LLM CHECKS THAT WERE NOT DONE ON LLM SENSITIVE ITEMS....BY US PROFESSIONAL AMFA TECHS. DAMN...DID I FOGET TO MENTION THE OIL CAPS....OVER 20 OF THEM. MOST NWA TECHS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN HIGHLY PAID PUSH BACK DRIVERS. OH WAIT...NOT ANYMORE, THATS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RAMP NOW. YES...NWA, THE ONLY AIRLINE LEFT TO LET THEIR TECHS PUSH AIRPLANES. THEY FINALLY WOKE UP. WELL, I HAVE TO GET READY FOR MY PICKET LINE DUTY. GONNA TAKE SOME MORE PICS OF SCABS TODAY. IM LIKING THAT ;)

3:18 AM


Anonymous said...
Hi, I cannot agree with everything this guy says but he has a point.Im a striking NWA tech and I always thought of it this way. AMFA or the IAM never taught me a godamn thing about airplanes.I know what I know from the training NWA has given me over the years and the shared knowledge and ojt of my co-workers. This guy is correct though....we're all humans and I have made mistakes through my career.I have seem more mistakes than I can care to remember from my union brothers and being a member of AMFA ( which I am very proud of ) has had absolutely no bearing on what kind of technician I am. NONE. I do my best and do it well. Lets see, how about all of those long time , very experienced NON UNION Delta airlines technicians. Many of which NWA has hired over the years and are now dues paying members of AMFA. I rest my case.

3:32 AM