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Old 19th Jan 2009, 15:29
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nitty-gritty
 
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Judging from multiple posts and only a thimble full of knowledge in them (mostly wrong) the old misinformation machine has starting up again.

AACS (now AABO) was formed to circumvent European wet leasing laws and as a ready cadre of replacement pilots for the newly formed Atlas union beginning negotiations if they went on strike. British Authorities said BS to the wet leasing circumvention in Europe so that killed one side of that which initiated the new airline GSS (global supply systems).

Atlas kept growing the AACS group and started furloughing mainline Atlas crews later to increase negotiation leverage against the union and group. Their was no status quo since this was a first contract (no title 6 protections) and the Railway Labor Act only works with us based crews so we could not look to any federal help (yet again) to stop the lorenzo tactics. The STN letter of agreement was negotiated originally under the Amussin MEC to try and slow the mainline job losses. It later became part of the final contract as a LOA also under the Bourne MEC which followed the Amussin MEC which could not get their version of the contract passed under membership ratification. Under the Bourne MEC, they were able to get it negotiated were anyone hired had to be on the Atlas ALPA seniority list at any new offshore base that was created by the company and any subsequent hiring at STN halting that particular tactic from repeating by the company. That unfortunately did not include the currently employed AACS/AABO guys already hired. Those guys got their reward of STN super seniority. They were about 170 at the time and are now around 40-50.

During that same time, the company did not let up on the pressure on the Atlas crews and association during negotiations. The company had bought a nearly defunct airline in which they moved about five Atlas aircraft and associated flying contracts over to (PAC), furloughing more Atlas crewmembers while hiring off the street at the newly aquired carrier. More Atlas guys on the street. Later proved out financially that it was another negotiation tactic in the later bankruptcy court discovery a few years later.

So your facts are wrong. Judging from who was giving it out on one side, I'm not surprised. Luckily he is not a factor in the combined group anymore other than being source of discontent.
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