American Airlines

Mechanic and Related Update: Brothers and sisters, As we continue to prepare for negotiations, your committee met for two weeks in Chicago from July 26th through August 7th. We continued the reconciliation process and began writing new language in preparations for the upcoming joint contract negotiations. We have made great progress, as we addressed some

TWU-IAM Association Determines Servicing and Negotiating Responsibilities for Work Groups Within the Mechanic & Related, Fleet Service and Stores Classes and Crafts The TWU-IAM Association determined servicing and bargaining responsibilities for the following work groups, which were included as part of the TWU-IAM Association’s certification for the Mechanic & Related, Fleet Service and Stores classes

TWU-IAM Association Schedules New Meetings: Reconciliation Process Continues July 16, 2015 In continuing the process to initiate joint contract bargaining with American Airlines, your TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees have scheduled meetings the weeks of July 27th and August 3rd in Chicago, Illinois. The Negotiating Committees will continue the “reconciliation process.” “Reconciliation” simply means that the committees

The Mechanic & Related/Stores/MCT and Fleet Service TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees met for the first time this week at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Training Center in Hollywood, MD. The Contract Preparation Program was launched by TWU-IAM Association Chair and Vice-Chair, Sito Pantoja and Harry Lombardo, who pledged the full support of the Association to

          On the heels of the National Mediation Board’s (NMB) certification of the TWU-IAM Association at American Airlines, the Fleet Service and Mechanic and Related negotiations committees have scheduled bargaining preparations at the Machinists Union’s William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Complex in Hollywood, Maryland the week of July 6, 2015.

Your Contract Screening Committee met this week in Charlotte, North Carolina. This Committee was organized in order to help prepare the Negotiations Committee for the fast approaching negotiations of a Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement. Your Screening Committee was composed of members representing each classification under our agreement. This week the Screening Committee quantified, sorted and

The National Mediation Board (NMB) today certified the TWU-IAM Association for the Fleet Service, Mechanic and Related and Stores classifications as the collective bargaining agent for all of the above classifications at American Airlines. All three Associations were formed following the merger of US Airways and American Airlines. Both the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and

As we reported last week, the IAM Contract Screening Committee is scheduled to meet in Charlotte, NC the week of May 18th to go through the proposals submitted by the membership.   We have included all work groups on the committee, as the members have requested.   Below are the members of the screening committee: Heavy Line

To continue to prepare for negotiations of our Joint Collective Bargaining Agreements (JCBA) with our Association partners, we will be scheduling the LUS screening committees for all the respective classifications to meet in Charlotte during the week of May 18, 2015. We have collected proposals from all work groups and now these proposals must be

The following Q& A is part one of a series of communications about pensions. Q: Who administers the frozen American Airlines (AA) pension plan? A: The frozen AA pension plan is administered by American Airlines.   Q: Does the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)—the federal agency that insures pensions and administers standard and distressed pension