American Airlines

Amid unprecedented company and industry profitability, the TWU-IAM Association today announced that it commenced the largest ever joint contract negotiations with American Airlines for approximately 30,000 ground workers in Dallas. “American Airlines is booking record profits quarter after quarter because of its merger with US Airways. The carrier will more than double its earnings this […]

Brothers and Sisters: As previously announced, on December 3rd, 2015, the TWU-IAM Association will officially open negotiations with American Airlines and begin bargaining a joint contract for the 30,000 ground workers at the world’s largest airline. We understand that many of you are anxious to get to the table and we thank you for your

Washington, D.C. – After a months-long contract reconciliation process, the TWU-IAM Association today announced that it will commence joint contract negotiations for approximately 30,000 ground workers including fleet service, mechanic and related/stores employees at American Airlines on December 3, 2015. Association Chairman Sito Pantoja and Vice Chairman Harry Lombardo have called on American Airlines CEO

Dear TWU-IAM Association Member, As the regular Joint Association bulletins report, your Mechanic and Related/Stores and Fleet Service Negotiating Committees are working hard to finalize joint contract proposals. In the meantime, TWU-IAM Joint Association Leadership is preparing a longer term strategy and formal rollout plan to initiate joint contract negotiations with American Airlines, ensuring we enter the process in

Mechanic and Related/ Stores Negotiating Committee Update: Your committee met in DFW at the TWU ATD Headquarters last week and accomplished the following: • Worked to complete reconciliation process for the Mechanic and Related, MLS/Stores and MCT groups. We have completed the review of all the articles of both CBA’s for each group. • Continued

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Your TWU-IAM Fleet Service Negotiating Committee met this week in Dallas and continued reconciling both pre-merger collective bargaining agreements into one coherent, comprehensive joint contract proposal. This necessary process has been intensive, time consuming and requires extreme scrutiny so that no area is overlooked. The interpretation and understanding of both contracts

Fleet Service Update: Sisters and brothers, The Fleet Service Negotiating Committee met this week in Chicago, Illinois and continued to make progress in reconciling the TWU/IAM contracts. This process is critical and extremely time consuming. Your committee believes that to best represent the memberships’ interests, we must be fully prepared to meet with the company

Mechanic and Related: Brothers and Sisters, As we work towards finalizing the reconciliation of the labor agreements, your committee will be prepared and looks forward to receiving the company’s proposals. Your committee met in Chicago at the IAM District 141 headquarters this week and accomplished the following: • Worked on the Mechanic and Related reconciliation

  Brothers and sisters, Your Fleet Service Association Negotiating Committee met this week in Dallas to continue writing and reconciling contract language. We are closely examining every article and section of the agreements. As anticipated, this is a challenging process but we are united in our efforts to ensure an industry leading contract for all