What is the difference between the Teamsters and AMFA?
Of the 1.4 million workers represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, more than 40,000 are in the airline industry. This includes aircraft mechanics, pilots, stock clerks and other air carrier employees. The Teamsters represent more than 18,000 mechanics and related at carriers including: Continental, United Parcel Service (UPS—with the best aviation mechanics contract in the industry), AirTran Airways, Champion Air, Continental Air Micronesia, Express Jet, Frontier Airlines, GE Engine Services, US Airways Piedmont and United. In addition, the Teamsters have active organizing campaigns at FedEx and Atlantic Southeast Airlines. AMFA’s track record is nothing short of a catastrophic failure of such proportions that it degrades not only the job security and standard of living of the members it represents, but that of the mechanics in the industry as a whole. The debacle at Northwest Airlines clearly demonstrates that even though they claim to be a union for aircraft mechan
