Negotiations picked up again this past week in Manhattan, New York under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The Company committee was present including Brian Pinchbeck, Fiona O’Shea, Lorna Elliott from the UK and Georgia LaBarge from the US. The full negotiation committee for the Union was present including Ignacio Salim from […]
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May 30, 2019 American Airlines Is More Focused On Litigation, Not Negotiating the Contract Our Members Deserve As was said earlier, our negotiations with American are not only important for our members, but for the whole airline industry. The Company is currently near the top of their outsourcing of work maximums established through bankruptcy. Our fight
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On behalf of the TWU-IAM Association, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), The Allied Pilots Association (APA) and The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) for their letters of support in our contract negotiations fight with American Airlines. Our negotiations with American
Sisters and Brothers: The IAM and the company negotiated LOA #17, in November of 2017, to provide an option for Flight Attendants to maintain employment. The company announced today that CRJ Flight Attendants will have the option to be preferentially hired to vacancies under the ERJ operation. Below is a Q&A to help CRJ flight
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Happy AMT Day! In 2001, the FAA created the prestigious Charles E. Taylor Master Mechanic Award to honor AMTs who had served at least 50 years in aircraft maintenance. The following year, California Senator Knight introduced a resolution honoring Aviation Maintenance Technicians annually in honor of Charles Taylor’s birthday. Charles Taylor was the machinist who built
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May 22, 2019 Brothers and Sisters, The TWU-IAM Association today submitted a letter to the National Mediation Board (NMB) requesting they compel American Airlines to fulfill their obligation to bargain with The Association. American management has tried to circumvent your negotiating committee by filing a lawsuit, misrepresenting the facts to Congress and trying to negotiate
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Sisters and Brothers: In accordance with LOA 13, we have already started preliminary talks regarding applicable work rules and pay for the larger EMB 175 aircraft. We are in the process of developing a comprehensive proposal to present to the Company. In the event we are unable to reach an agreement the matter will be
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Sisters and Brothers: Since the tentative agreement failed to ratify, General Grievances 41 & 42 are still pending and we are in the process of moving them forward to arbitration. We are continuing to prepare our case to support our position that the Company has violated LOA 18 by providing other work groups increases in
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WASHINGTON, May 21, 2019— The TWU-IAM Association today issued the following statement in response to American Airlines’ request for an injunction against the Association: “It is unfortunate that American Airlines has chosen to abandon negotiating with its employees and instead go straight to federal court. The airline is frustrated with the Association for refusing to
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Sisters and Brothers: Your IAM negotiations committee, Lisa Ferm and Mark Diefenbach along with IAM General Chairperson Sara Gonzales, met with the Company to continue negotiations May 15-17, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. We exchanged proposals on the following Sections: Section 5 – Scheduling Section 3 – General As we continued to work on the Scheduling
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