British Airways

On July 13, 2017 the company presented your committee with a proposal to outsource the entire US Customer Service operation. At the same time the Engineering group was falling further and further behind. Fast forward to February 28, 2019 and we faced the newest and third company negotiator and Engineering still hadn’t gotten anywhere. Today […]

I have been contacted by many, many people in the past few days from throughout the US concerning some false and inaccurate information being circulated by irresponsible people in management.  Here is what I am able to tell you. As everyone is aware, talks were again held at the NMB offices in Washington, DC last

Meetings continued this week in NYC between the Union and Company with NMB Mediator, Gerry McGuckin, Kate Ling and Wayne Fraser representing Engineering accompanied by other company committee members.  Your Union committee was present and joined by GLR’s Mike Manzo and John Werkmeister. With the Customer Service open items having been addressed, this week centered

Meetings continued this week in NYC between the Union and Company with NMB Mediator, Gerry McGuckin, CS Sr. VP Brian Pinchbeck, Kate Ling representing Engineering, the various company committee members and your Union committee was present and joined by GLR’s Mike Manzo and John Werkmeister. There was again significant progress made on the terms for

Meetings continued this week in NYC between the Union and Company. While the NMB Mediator, Gerry McGuckin, was not present, the parties have always been free to schedule meetings to occur without him. The Company committee was again represented by Brian Pinchbeck and your Union committee was present and joined by GLR John Werkmeister. Much positive progress was

Meetings continued last week in NYC under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The Company committees were again represented by Brian Pinchbeck and your Union committee was present with the additions of GLR Mike Manzo. While there is nothing in the form of any agreement to announce, it is important to try

Meetings continued this week in ORD under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The Company committees were again represented by Brian Pinchbeck and your Union committee was present with the additions of Grand Lodge Reps Mike Manzo and John Werkmeister. Progress was again made in identifying ways to generate savings for the

The Company and Union met again this week in Washington, DC at the National Mediation Board with Mediator Gerry McGuckin. Discussions this week centered on the recent operational assessment of the JFK operation that was conducted by Mr. Pinchbeck. The information he shared with your negotiating committee was an inside look at trying to determine

Negotiations picked up again this past week in Manhattan, New York under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The Company committee was present including Brian Pinchbeck, Fiona O’Shea, Lorna Elliott from the UK and Georgia LaBarge from the US. The full negotiation committee for the Union was present including Ignacio Salim from

Negotiations were held again this week in Miami, Florida under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The full negotiation committee for the Union was present.   At this meeting, the Company introduced as their new lead negotiator, Brian Pinchbeck, who comes to us from the UK and whose current title is Head of