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AMFA tells American Airlines mechanics that it won’t be able to try to organize them for a year

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The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association has informed American Airlines mechanics that it won’t be able to launch an organizing attempt at American for one year.

And, AMFA officials are rethinking its “organizing philosophy as a whole,” the AMFA National Executive Council told AA mechanics and related employees in a Monday email.

AMFA had been at work trying to get signatures from more than 50 percent of the eligible American employees for some time so that it could cause a representation vote.

But the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, also trying to take the mechanics away from the Transport Workers Union, filed its signatures first. AMFA tried unsuccessfully to file its own signatures. Then the Teamsters withdrew their application in August.

The National Mediation Board rules state that it will not accept an application for representation for one year in several circumstances. One is a case in which an application to represent a group is docketed then dismissed, as in the case of the Teamsters and the mechanics.

NMB told AMFA the Teamsters effort bars another representation attempt for a year.

“We are saddened and deeply troubled at the course of action they [the NMB] decided to take, and furthermore at their interpretation of ‘unusual or extraordinary circumstances,’” the AMFA council stated.

It then repeated previous accusations that the TWU had somehow worked with the Teamsters to keep AMFA out. Those unions have dismissed those accusations.

“After all of your hard work and dedication, it is unfortunate that you have been told to wait when the overwhelming evidence pointed to the collusion of the IBT and TWU, and ultimately, the deceitfulness of the Teamsters,” AMFA’s message said. “The industrial unions have unconscionably manipulated the influence they have gained through your dues and work ethic into a ruse designed to steal away your participation in a free and democratic election to determine who represents you.”

Keep reading for the NMB’s rules on the one-year bar, followed by the AMFA council’s message.

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