Brothers and Sisters, The TWU-IAM Association was notified this week that the National Mediation Board has assigned two mediators to our negotiations. The mediators have indicated that, due to Federal budget concerns and scheduling, they will not schedule mediated negotiating sessions until after October. The Association has demanded to meet with American with or without […]
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Sisters and Brothers: The joint Alaska Airlines Negotiating Committee continued negotiations with Alaska Airlines management September 11-13, 2018, in Seattle, Washington. It was agreed that whole sessions would no longer be dedicated to either the COPS or RSSA groups, respectively, and as such, both agreements would and could be discussed. Represented by the Company were:
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Many of you have read the Special Jetwire issued by American Airlines regarding our negotiations. If you don’t read anything else in this bulletin, read this: Beware of any negotiations propaganda issued by the Company. It contains partial examples, misleading statements and outright wrong information. It is true that your negotiating team has reached tentative
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Continuing from last week, the parties again met in NYC under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. This week was all Customer Service related. No new developments materialized as the result of this week’s meetings and your negotiating committee continued the work of endeavoring to preserve jobs for those who want to
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The IAM/ASIG-ORD 403 Agreement will expire on January 14, 2019 Accordingly, a call for contract proposals is now being made. All proposals are to be submitted on a contract proposal form and received in the District office no later than September 28, 2018 . When submitting more than one proposal, please use separate forms. Each
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Brothers and Sisters, Today, September 12, 2018, American Airlines delivered Section 6 notices for all open TWU-IAM Association collective bargaining agreements. Simply stated, a Section 6 notice officially opens contracts under the Railway Labor Act. The TWU-IAM Association welcomes this gesture by the Company as a sign they will now get serious about reaching the
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Sisters and Brothers: We would like to inform you of a change within our CLE grievance committee. Ali Rhodes will now be working full time directly with the IAM Organizing Department. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors and greatly appreciate her hard work and the dedication she has shown to the
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During the week of August 20th, informational meetings were held across the system for the Air Wisconsin COFPS membership. The details of the tentative agreement were given to those members and questions were answered. After the informational meetings, members voted on the tentative agreement. Those ballots were counted Monday at the District office. The contract
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Sisters and Brothers: As many of you have seen, Hurricane Florence is making its way to the United States and is expected in the Carolinas and Virginia later this week. Based on past experiences weather events of this magnitude have the potential to wreak havoc on our flight operations. For those of you who are
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Sisters and Brothers: We would like to ask you all to take a moment out of your busy day to remember and honor our fellow flight attendants and all those heroes who lost their lives on this day seventeen years ago. So much time has passed, yet we shall not forget September 11th. Every crew
