YES WE CAN part 1

June 30, 2009 the former TWA flight attendants picketed STL airport (Lambert field) and the Renaissance Hotel where APFA was presenting a contract road show. No other union has ever treated new members so horribly, placing ALL TWA flight attendants at the bottom of the seniority list. The impact on this group has been catastrophic, careers, retirement, loss of life. TWA flight attendants are willing to fight to the very end. And the end may ultimately be APFA.

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[twaladybug]

So where is it today - APFA, tommy Hutto Blake, John Ward and Laura Glading took it away. They gave away my career, my furlough pay and my retirement.

[twaladybug]

We are not wrong - APFA is not even a union - and you should be angry at the way the RPA was railroaded down your throats. A real union would have had a "me too" and "snap back" clauses that would have protected its membership.

APFA will not be here after this new contract is signed and we will get our seniority.

[twaladybug]

We are not going down without a fight. We cannot afford to lose a lifetime career because of one rather inept union.

[twaladybug]

DOL found APFA to have "rigged" the election in STL. The RPA lawsuit if moving forward. A recall petition is alive and well to get rid of Laura Glading. APFA is the poster child for a union gone wrong. We deserved fair treatment. It is now law that mergers/acquisitions can no longer make the employees the victims. We demand fair treatment and we will not go away. TWA was by far the better airline - we gave DOL to Ozark and would have done the same to AA F/A's if reversed.

[twaladybug]

I know that Delta treated Western Airline F/A's poorly - it took years to get both pay and bidding seniority - but they got it. Reno F/A's lost all of their seniority with AA/APFA.

The IAM, as our TWA union rep - that they had never lost a day of seniority in all of their years - well that statement is not long correct. The IAM gave away our Scope and Merger clause in our contract, while APFA and AA promised fair intergration.

[twaladybug]

Give me back my airline, routes, planes, passengers and gates. Do not fly to Paris, Rome or Spain because every time you do its a TWA route and job you have taken. I find the AA F/A's the most illiterate and lazy F/A's in the industry. Retire - on what? AA took away my pension. APFA and Ms glading gave away furlough pay. You try to find a new career and pay bills. APFA is accountable for every travesty that has happen to us.

[cruio]

I lost 28 with EASTERN do you see me crying............  move on

[cruio]

But TWA DID NOT acquired AA sooo

[volcano869]

To the guy who said he started in 73.  (3.:00) you didn't merge into American your company was acquired by American. big difference

[737823]

If APFA members are so unhappy with their current contract, pay, work rules with AA, they should give them the treatment these FAs received and allow these dedicAAted, hardworking TWAers return to work. Having lived in STL and as TWA elite and now an AA Exec Plat, TWA will always have a special place in my heart. Long live the TWA spirit. APFA is an unreasonable, destructive, selfish and self serving organization that does not represent its members interests. The TWA spirit will never die.

[Julyinmia]

You gotta be kidding lady!!! Time to wake up and smell the coffee... TWA was Bankrupt a long long time ago... Maybe if 9/11 did not happen things could have been better, BUT, even then, your seniority would have been BOTTOM. It's not fair to cut to the front of the line...

By the way, time to go home and start a new quilt and stop the guilt...

[tlegeros]

Now you know AA was talking out of their you know what! And to set the record straight you got full bidding seniority in STL and JFK, then STL......

[tlegeros]

Time to face reality. IAM sold you out. APFA did what WE expected them to do. So if you want to blame someone, blame the membership, because the majority was not in favor of giving seniority. APFA did not promise ANYTHING  - AA did.

[tlegeros]

APFA could have done what ever they wanted regarding seniority as there was no agreement prior to the purchase, and they DID. Sherry Cooper could have come to the meeting w/John Ward without demanding nothing less than DOH, but she DIDN'T. No more need for discussion.