Sisters and Brothers, Yesterday, April 6, 2017, the National Mediation Board (NMB) issued its single carrier determination for IAM represented Clerical, Office, Fleet and Passenger Service (COFPS) Alaska Airlines and Virgin America employees. This determination is in response to the IAM application requesting this action. Yesterday’s NMB decision is a procedural step on the road
Sisters and Brothers, On Tuesday April 4, 2017, the Joint Seniority Integration Team, comprising of members from Alaska and Virgin America, met with Arbitrator Joshua Javits and attorneys from Guerrieri, Clayman, Bartos, Parcelli & Roma, P.C law firm to discuss the seniority integration of the two carriers COPS employees. During this meeting, both the Virgin
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Sisters and Brothers, On April 4, the joint Alaska/Virgin America seniority integration team will be meeting with Joshua Javits, the selected neutral arbitrator to discuss the merging of the two airline’s seniority roster into one roster. During this meeting, Arbitrator Javits will explain his process to the team and the team will explain any concerns
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Sisters and Brothers, In preparation for negotiations of the RSSA and COPS contracts, the following members have been appointed to serve on the Negotiating Committee: COPS Jesse Wilson – Local Lodge 601, ANC Dan Suafoa – Local Lodge 2202, SEA Nisha Chaudry – Local Lodge 1781, SFO Jennifer Araujo – Local Lodge 1932, LAX Joe
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Sisters and Brothers, On February 18, 2017, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Alaska Airlines announced the reach of a transition agreement that will provide improvements to the working conditions and benefits for Clerical, Office and Passenger Service (COPS) employees. This agreement spells out how Virgin America employees will transition to
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Alaska Airlines today reached a transition agreement that will provide improvements to the working conditions and benefits for Clerical, Office and Passenger Service (COPS) employees. This agreement spells out how Virgin America employees will transition to the coverage of the existing IAM-Alaska Airlines collective bargaining
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Sisters and Brothers, Jeff Butler responded to my membership report Monday regarding the Alaska- Virgin merger transition talks and tentative agreement. While his remarks were filled with alternate facts, one thing he conveniently left out was that Alaska is trying to walk away from an agreement made with the IAM that protected the work of
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Sisters and Brothers, In preparing for the upcoming negotiations at Alaska Airlines, we have developed a survey to get your input into what matters most to you in a new CBA. We will soon be asking for contract proposals, so they too will help us focus on what is the high priority issues of the
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Just moments before a transition agreement between the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Alaska Airlines was to be signed, Alaska Airlines insisted the IAM change the terms both parties already agreed to in that transition agreement to allow it to outsource work currently protected under the IAM contract, targeting reservations first.
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The IAM today announced it filed for a determination of single carrier status at Alaska Airlines with the National Mediation Board (NMB). The filing requests that the federal agency affirm that post-merger Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are now functioning as a single transportation system for representation purposes for Clerical, Office, Fleet and Passenger Service
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