American Airlines

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

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: Seniority M&R-MLS Hours of Service M&R                                                                                                                                        Reduction in Force M&R-MLS Overtime Distribution Procedures M&R- MLS As previously reported in our last session, Association negotiators presented the company with a comprehensive proposal on Scope

 Brothers and Sisters, The full negotiating committees met with Association attorneys in December to prepare our Scope proposals followed by a sub-committee meeting in Washington D.C. the week of January 2nd to the 5th, along with the Association legal team to finalize these Scope proposals. The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines

Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Dallas. All groups concentrated on internal discussions and deliberations in concert with the Association legal team on Scope language that will protect our work and jobs in the new contract. These discussions are in preparation for a counter proposal for

Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington, D.C.  This session focused on Maintenance Control Technicians (MCT) and Maintenance Training Specialists (MTS) along with other Mechanic & Related and Stores language.  Substantial progress was made in several non-economic articles. The constructive dialog and productive environment carried