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2026 Strikers Ball... Cowboy Jacks in Apple Valley
Saturday, August 8th

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Dale Driscoll scab photo of the day.. Was pretty much just a drunkard...

When I was at Delta, I noticed that a majority of the Delta mechanics could not, or did not know how to change a jet engine. And we were changing 3 to 4 engines every night. From the JT8, CF6, PW2000, CFM 56 and many others…. I enjoyed the changing of jet engines because that was my background from the US Air Force Jet Engine school and Air Force Jet Engine shop, and test cell. One night, a Delta widget asked me for my wrench…. A 3/4 inch drive ratchet. I explicitly said to him, ”give it back to me when you are done”…. Later after the engine change, I asked him where’s my ratchet?
He said that he gave it to someone else….
I said GO FIND IT, I didn’t authorize you to pass my ratchet wrench around like it was yours.
Finally, after many hours, after we had run the engine and ops checked it, did I finally get my ratchet wrench. But I never loaned out another wrench to anyone again. Especially a Delta widget…!!!

the current president will have a happy presidents day without your stupidity. mr lame ass so called lawyer. keep drinking the kool-aid of your heros hilary and aoc who travel the world bad mouthing our country

Happy Presidents Day…..
Except for the current….
As an attorney and ex Northwest Airlines honorable employee,
I’ve witnessed or become involved with numerous people who have made bad decisions.
This is typical behavior by people who are misled by Leadership, co-workers, friends, family members, spouse or maybe a lover.
Yes, history has shown that people are very vulnerable in decision making and instead of due diligence and judgment, they rely on others for their decisions. I watched many Northwest employees move on to other airlines before the strike…. To Southwest, to Delta, a military contractor….. and as soon as the strike… I too was gone. Lame ass Northwest management could not be trusted.
But my 19 years was a good run. Same freaking situation in the military, no promotions, lame ass president.
So, I write to advise, enjoy your time, your family, your life….
And if offered, your retirement.

I think it's not too far an assumption that the protesters as well as supporters of the protesters in Minnesota would protest the Manson Family being broken up.

Minnesota, the three leaders that have brought down the quality of life in the state.
Governor Walz
Attorney General Ellison
Minneapolis Mayor Frey

All three should be arrested for Fraud, promoting a criminal sanctuary state to start with. Arrest them book them and then let them set bail. This is how our country works.
We need common sense leaders

yes the minn. gov says we the rest of the country should pay because of ice. not because the rioters are causing a a problem. lets regain our brains and start to act normal what a idiot can you imagine if this guy was the vp OMG! lets get back to normal.

Minnesota and the Democrat: The IAM use to push their members to vote left democrat. Whoever is left in Minnesota we have seen a bunch of street thugs in office. AG Ellison, Walz and femey mayor Frey.
Any hardworking union member should never vote to the left again. My son and his union buddies are all center to the right.
The fraud, stealing, generational welfare, lying of the left wing is coming to an end.

The ELC, governing body of the Lutheran church promotes transgenderism and for sex operations below 18 in this sanctuary state of Minnesota.

to the "Post Card" writer:
Truly delusional as well clueless!

Little Craig Kirby made scab o the day pic. Little Kirby wanted so much to be looked on as a big man. Hey Kirby, it isn't your size that mattered, it was your integrity and character. You once again, came up short. :)

here is an example of pbs wokeness. a 6 year old kid cries in front of a camera and says donald trump is gonna kill big bird. all because he wants to cut funding of pbs with our tax dollars. shame on the kids woke parents for leading him in such a perverse way. trump would never kill big bird but i sure as hell would. Id KILL HIM, ID PlUCK HIM and I would PUT HIM IN MY FRYER AND THAN I EAT HIM!

Please explain PBS wokeness.

nfl
you idiot you pay handsomely for your pbs wokeness. it is funded by taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Response: NFL
YES, Super Bowl was lame, and in fact, professional football has gotten very SOFT. Starting off on the 35 yard line after a lame kick. Every year the NFL creates new stupid rules for the multi million dollar players. And what do the players do, gamble on their own team, and getting caught. Most major league sports are rigged to make money for the bookies. Please remember, NFL ….. it’s entertainment. Thank goodness for public broadcasting (PBS). Fewer commercials and more interesting….!! Plus all the hype, just hype…. Because it’s people…. Why would you pay to watch people who do stupid stuff….?

the nfl can go away. woke as can be and now they want us all to be latinos. we need more latino head coaches or we are racists.

Bad Bunny,,, ran more yards than the N E Patriots

post card boy
you just had to inject your tds into your comment. did you see the dow hit the 50000 mark for the first time ever and by the way those orgy boys in atlanta sound just your boy hunter!!!!!1 whose the idiot?????????

The post card…..
Opened my mailbox to find a postcard offering aircraft mechanics a position, I think $30 or $35 an hour…..
Ted Camp probably sent them out…..
I immediately knew what it meant and what it was about….
I immediately tossed the post card in the trash and about a day later, one of my students who I mentored, called me to discuss the opportunity. He was a contractor at a military base and I coached him and mentored him to become an FAA certified aircraft mechanic.
There were other people other than the SCABS who did stupid stuff such as Jeffery Epstein. Roy Turner from Arizona, had a locker in the Atlanta maintenance facility where porn sex videos were available for 50 cents.
I witnessed another Atlanta aircraft mechanic putting his 50 cents into the little can, a taking a vhs video tape of pornography. I thought that he was stealing out of another’s locker. I had many times had things taken out of my personal locker which was locked.
Atlanta mechanics Rob, Chris, and others rented a hotel room near the airport and had an orgy with strippers. Most of the guys were married and I thought, keep your private lives and activities to yourself. Don’t bring it to work. But they did and bragged about it.
I was in the military and I was briefed on sexual transmitted diseases back in 1976.
Those guys could have gotten Gonorrhea, Syphilis, or a number of STD (Sexually Transmitted Infections)….
SCABS are low life people who are not educated, like TRUMP, and
don’t care about the mechanics creed….
Upon my honor I swear that I shall hold in sacred trust the rights and privileges conferred upon me as a certified aircraft mechanic. Knowing full well that the safety and lives of others are dependent upon my skill and judgement. I shall never knowingly subject others to risks which I would not be willing to assume for myself, or those dear to me.

Those Atlanta scum bags knowing knew that they were subjecting not only themselves but their wives and family to substantial risks and consequences, unpleasant consequences, potentially heath issues and more.

SCABS were influenced by others because a SCAB is a stupid idiot like TRUMP, who relies on others such as Jeffrey Epstein for guidance and advice.

Blaming the strike loss solely on “scabs” oversimplifies things and risks distracting from the harder — but more meaningful — questions about strategy, leverage, and leadership that usually determine whether a strike succeeds or fails.

Here is the real reason we lost the strike:

The only way we were going back was to scab. Management at all companies love scabbing. They know scabs are weak and willing to do whatever it takes to keep their job or someone else’s. It was time to move on for me. It would of been nice to stay and finish out
At nwa but looking back it. Was always a miserable experience.
Once amfa wanted the scabs to sign up that was the last straw for me.

Here is the real reason we lost the strike:

The AMFA strike commenced on August 20, 2005, and members were incredibly persistent and unified. NWA made extensive preparations for AMFA's strike as they hired 1,200 replacement mechanics, and the TWU assisted this mode of operation by holding a job fair at their Kansas City maintenance hangar during the strike to assist the company with this pursuit. Additionally, NWA expanded their global outsourcing of repair and service work with foreign and non-union contractors to ensure their operations continued as normal. In the fall of 2005, soon after the strike began, NWA declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced they were making some of their temporary workers permanent.
Unconscionably, NWA management requested other unions, including the IAM, TWU, and IBT, to cross AMFA’s picket lines to perform the duties of AMFA mechanics and related employees. Furthermore, their Machiavellian tactics to help NWA recruit replacement mechanics only contributed to NWA’s union-busting. While it is understandable that IAM and their large industrial union brethren were humiliated and bitter after being displaced by AMFA, it remains unforgivable that they would intentionally side with management and undermine workers.
It only proves the point that the AFL/CIO and IAM’s selfish need for power and wealth is more important than the needs of workers and the vitality of the labor movement in America. IAM General Vice President Robert Roach responded to AMFA’s request for solidarity from IAM ramp workers and customer service agents by stating, “IAM members will not be duped into standing with AMFA,” while the IAM Local President in Detroit tried to put a spin on the scabbing by claiming it was better for his union to do the scab work than have an outside contractor do it. The Teamsters, like other major unions at NWA, pushed their members to swallow a package of substantial concessions when NWA threatened bankruptcy. Many of the IBT leaders flew on NWA flights, and IAM members helped in performing AMFA’s work during the strike. The unique history of unions at NWA has played a key role in these dynamics.
Ultimately, the strike failed, and NWA was free to slash, burn, and outsource without anything getting in their way; this was only made possible due to the devious role of other labor unions. The anti-union tactics deployed by the IAM led to success in their quest against AMFA and, in return, the IAM lost thousands of mechanic and related jobs at NWA. The IAM sacrificed members for their agenda with complete neglect for what was in the best interest of the members.

Unions are no better than management. I am done with supporting unions. After decades of paying dues to the IAM and the best they could negotiate was 2%, and no back pay. I was proud we fired the IAM, but ultimately it was they who stuck the knife in our backs, not my fellow colleagues regardless of whether they crossed or NOT.

Thomas Szydlowski SCAB Just another loud mouth prick who folded when the time came to stand with men who possessed a sense of Honor...

By walking out, we gave Andi Roberts the 'clean break' he had spent eight weeks engineering.

Had we remained on the clock—even with no work assigned—we would have turned his own strategy into a financial noose.

Forcing NWA to maintain a 'ghost payroll' of thousands of mechanics while simultaneously funding a redundant replacement force would have created an unsustainable burn rate for a company already teetering on the edge of its 2005 bankruptcy. This 'Inside Strategy' would have stripped away their PR cover; management could not have easily justified to shareholders or the state why they were paying two workforces to do the work of one. Furthermore, by staying, we would have forced NWA to either officially lock us out—triggering different legal protections and unemployment liabilities—or admit that their 'contingency plan' was actually a pre-planned effort to break the union.

Staying put would have turned their eight-week work diversion into a public and financial scandal, rather than a successful transition to scabs.

"Per the recent participants in the Northwest Airlines pension plan for contract employees, October 2024-September 2025, Delta Airlines DID NOT MAKE ANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANY OF THE RETIREMENT PLANS. their statement of commitment to funding the retirement plans is steadfast. (loyal - firm - wavering) I believe that this is the first non contribution to the retirement plans, which per the report is funded at 111 percent. Facts indicate that the total number of people (participants) and beneficiaries covered in the retirement plans is continuing to drop off at 42,802. If you didn’t receive the latest annual retirement funding report, fund or plan number 016, you can call the Retirement Benefits administrator 1-800-MYDELTA (800-693-3582) for the information."

Perhaps this member would like to peruse this PDF.

all the somalians in minn. reminds me of nwa. i spent about 5 years interviewing for that crappy job. every time i interviewed the nwa equal opportunity, affirmative action policy kicked in. how many useless somalians do you have to hire just to give them their flight benfits. no wonder we failed

Response: “Business model” and “betrayal” (BETRAYED US).
I had a Value Jet / Air Tran pilot as a roommate (future neighbor) who later became a Southwest Airlines pilot and constantly said mechanics made too much money and that their airline didn’t have a mechanic walking around the aircraft in between flights.
Then all of other airlines followed up with “on call maintenance” where mechanics were only to work on an aircraft if there was a log book item.
He told me that they (pilots) were not allowed to enter a log book discrepancy until the last flight of the day. So, yes absolutely a new business model to cut back and possibly eliminate aircraft mechanics was planned and carried out. Line maintenance was on the demise.
Over night maintenance and hangar maintenance was priority.
Absolutely airline employees were constantly betrayed by CEO’s
and senior - upper management.
I was told by an ex-NWA Manager who stated that he was directed by senior management to make it difficult for mechanics.
Betrayal is ongoing in families, friends, communities and the workplace. Sad but true, and we can only hope that the betrayal doesn’t happen or affect ME / US ….
I witnessed betrayal in my own church….
So for all of the honorables who continued to work, move forward and try to ignore the stupidity of management, doing the job, striving for success, experience and knowledge.
Stay on the clock, come to work on time, perform, do your freaking job…..

What do you think the democrats would feel toward ICE if they found out the illegal's were going to vote republican when they could.

RE: "Hey buddy, it was a lonely feeling standing out there on the picket line watching scabs, former co-workers drive past you on their way in to work. Co-workers that you knew had been so militant..

I too tasted that bitter sting, but now have come to realize who truly betrayed us. I am now throgoughly convinced our negotiators knew full well that NWA had chosen a new business model and were prepared to fully implement it, yet they called the strike anyway. To add insult to injury they later tried to organize the hotel scabs to join the union. Must have been that lack of revenue thing.

I certainly see your point and agree with you. Our negotiators trying to "organize" the scabs calling it "a reformed scab is better than a scab for life" was just an attempt to keep their own jobs. They disgraced themselves, what a shame. Be that as it may, I do not regret "staying out" with all those Honorable men and women back in 2005.

One might speculate that unemployment benefits were withheld to incentivize a return to work, but this remains a theory rather than a documented fact. Legally, a strike is viewed as a collective voluntary resignation, which typically disqualifies the strikers themselves.

Because these individuals are unemployed by choice—rather than due to the 'unforeseen circumstances' the program was designed to mitigate—they generally don't qualify. However, the lockout ruling fundamentally altered this landscape. Furthermore, a critical distinction exists for those not on the picket line: if your job was eliminated as a downstream effect of a strike you did not participate in, you may remain eligible for benefits as your job loss was involuntary.

Per the recent participants in the Northwest Airlines pension plan for contract employees, October 2024-September 2025, Delta Airlines DID NOT MAKE ANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANY OF THE RETIREMENT PLANS. their statement of commitment to funding the retirement plans is steadfast. (loyal - firm - wavering) I believe that this is the first non contribution to the retirement plans, which per the report is funded at 111 percent. Facts indicate that the total number of people (participants) and beneficiaries covered in the retirement plans is continuing to drop off at 42,802. If you didn’t receive the latest annual retirement funding report, fund or plan number 016, you can call the Retirement Benefits administrator 1-800-MYDELTA (800-693-3582) for the information.

To life, liberty and our freedom HONORABLES….

Response: “Andi Robert’s”.
Andy or Andi…. Whatever, he came to the Atlanta maintenance facility I think around October 2000 and like Trump, nothing but bull shit lies. And a year later, an employee whose Mother worked for the department of labor, shared that Northwest Airlines has filed for a reduction in its workforce, by over 60 percent. It reaffirmed that Andy Robert’s and Northwest senior management had plans and intentions to close down the Atlanta maintenance facility. December 26, 2001 the Atlanta maintenance facility was closed. Merry Christmas everyone. Memphis had over 200 Atlanta technicians bump into the different departments. Then 3 months thereafter, another reduction in workforce. (2002)
Now where to….?

I did 5 years at Delta following a year at Lockheed. Retired with a pension thanks to the IAM.
To your health, wealth and happiness Honorables

Regarding: "No. We can never forgive or forget a SCAB. We mean them no harm."

"There is a profound dishonesty in claiming you 'mean no harm' while simultaneously declaring a lifelong vendetta. You can’t claim to be 'pro-worker' while actively working to permanently marginalize and punish a worker for the 'sin' of NOT making the choice of YOUR demands.

Hey buddy, it was a lonely feeling standing out there on the picket line watching scabs, former co-workers drive past you on their way in to work. Co-workers that you knew had been so militant..

Does anyone still honestly believe the strike was winnable? The outcome was essentially a foregone conclusion because the vendor contracts for every line station and check vendor had already been finalized; that work was never coming back. While the company went through the motions of negotiating to keep up appearances, they really had no intention of bringing back strikers. They preferred the replacement workers—who were willing to agree to any terms to keep the airline flying—and they had an enormous pool of applicants to choose from. When a single FAA inspector became an obstacle, they simply leveraged Congress to have him removed.

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