Airline Maintenance Safety
Your life and those of your loved ones are not always safe in the air.
I am a registered voter. I would like to express my concern regarding airline safety and the failure of the National Mediation Board (NMB) precipitating this safety concerns by not complying with a congressional mandated law (Railway Labor Act section 152.4).
Currently the NMB is completely ignoring the terms of section 152.4 of the Railway Labor Act, which proscribe the determination definition of craft or class in a singular manner as the only factor for determining occupational representation. The NMB has injected more factors in to the representation determination in violation of the Railway Labor Act, in their Representation Manual Section 9.0. This violation has precipitated the possibility of inexperience airline employees after some years as an Aircraft cleaner for example, and then one week as an Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) deciding the airworthiness of an aircraft and the fate of thousands of passengers. If the (NMB) would comply with the congressional mandated act the inherited benefit of seniority would prevent an inexperience Aircraft Maintenance Technician from this situation. In addition with the new fly by wire next gen. aircrafts now arriving at the airlines, there should be no room for an inexperience Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMT) jeopardizing the lives of passengers by permitting this violation of the law.
To remedy this airline safety concerns and the NMB violation of congressional mandated laws, I hope you would support a congressional directive to the (NMB) to implement an Aircraft Maintenance Technician Craft or Class pursuant to section 152.4 of the Railway Labor Act.
Thank you for your attention to these important matters.
Currently the NMB is completely ignoring the terms of section 152.4 of the Railway Labor Act, which proscribe the determination definition of craft or class in a singular manner as the only factor for determining occupational representation. The NMB has injected more factors in to the representation determination in violation of the Railway Labor Act, in their Representation Manual Section 9.0. This violation has precipitated the possibility of inexperience airline employees after some years as an Aircraft cleaner for example, and then one week as an Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) deciding the airworthiness of an aircraft and the fate of thousands of passengers. If the (NMB) would comply with the congressional mandated act the inherited benefit of seniority would prevent an inexperience Aircraft Maintenance Technician from this situation. In addition with the new fly by wire next gen. aircrafts now arriving at the airlines, there should be no room for an inexperience Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMT) jeopardizing the lives of passengers by permitting this violation of the law.
To remedy this airline safety concerns and the NMB violation of congressional mandated laws, I hope you would support a congressional directive to the (NMB) to implement an Aircraft Maintenance Technician Craft or Class pursuant to section 152.4 of the Railway Labor Act.
Thank you for your attention to these important matters.
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