American Airlines

Watch IAM District 141 Vice President Bill Wilson tell American Airlines President Robert Isom that American’s latest contract proposals are unacceptable during a recent town hall meeting in Philadelphia.

Brother and Sisters, The TWU-IAM Association is committed to achieving on American Airlines an industry-best contract that will benefit all Association members and, consequently, be the benchmark for future airline contract negotiations. The five main issues that remain in our negotiations with American are: scope (protecting our work and jobs), affordable healthcare, meaningful profit sharing,

Message to American Airlines: While the TWU-IAM Association patiently waits for American to contact us, we encourage them to offer Association members the Early Out package they are promising. Don’t wait. Do it now. The Company can do that now or anytime. An Early Out package is not tied to our joint contract negotiations. American,

Job security is the most important part of any collective bargaining agreement. And your negotiating committee is fighting to make sure it’s something you never have to worry about.  But when we finally see a tentative agreement, we all know the first thing many of us will do is flip back to the wage schedule

Brothers and Sisters, The full M&R and Fleet Association Negotiating Committees met this week with the Association Executive Committee in Washington, D.C. Your Committees were fully briefed by the Executive Committee on the negotiation sessions that were held over the last month. As you have seen in our communications over the last week, the company’s

Brothers and Sisters, The TWU-IAM Association is fighting for the industry’s best profit sharing plan.  The current American Airlines profit sharing plan is simply inadequate.  Even American’s CEO admitted that other airlines have better profit sharing plans. He recognized that those better plans have created a “compensation differential” for Association members that would be addressed

Brothers and Sisters, The TWU/IAM Association seeks to protect your jobs and the WORK you do. Without protecting your work, your job is at risk; and without a job, every other benefit in a contract is meaningless. Steve Johnsen and American are proposing FAKE SCOPE. In their most recent and insulting offer Steve and company

In this period between scheduled negotiating sessions, the Association leadership met with American Airlines management principals in the hope of better understanding each other’s position on the outstanding issues that need to be resolved in order to conclude negotiations.  Significant issues, including wages, job scope protection, pensions and medical benefits remain open. The Association entered

Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee this week met face to face with American Airlines in Washington D.C. Complete Tentative Agreements were reached on: Classifications-MTS Discussions continued on the MLS Classifications Article that contains some Scope provisions. The parties continued to narrow their positions in this article. Scope discussions were completed for MTS, except for those covenants

  Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington D.C. Complete Tentative Agreements were reached on: Filling of Vacancies-MLS Discussions continued on the MLS Classifications Article that contains some Scope provisions. The parties have narrowed their positions in this article. The majority of the Letters of Agreement that