On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, your negotiating committee met in Dallas at Southwest Airlines Headquarters to begin contract negotiations. Present for the company were: Adam Carlisle, Sr. Director, Labor Relations, Dan Kusek, Sr. Mgr., Labor Relations for CSA; Andrea Nivet, Sr. Mgr. Labor Relations for CS&S; Danielle Reidder, CS&S Regional Director; Jeff Cox, Ground Ops; […]
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Your Negotiating Committee for District 142, along with the General Chairs from District 142 and Grand Lodge representatives, participated in the Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committees program at the William W. Winpisinger Center in Hollywood, MD. The District represents employees at Southwest Airlines. Your committee consists of: April Butler – General Chair
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We will be holding our Southwest Airlines Steward Conference May 30-31 (travel days May 29 and June 1). Deadline for registration is this Friday, May 4th. If you haven’t submitted your registration forms, please do so as soon as possible! If you need registration forms, please contact your local recording secretary. Should you have any
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: Just a reminder, the survey for negotiations closes this Saturday. If you haven’t participated in the survey yet, please do so before the end of the week. We need your input to help focus our talks. Please click on this link to begin the survey: https://iamaw.checkboxonline.com/Survey.aspx?s=2d81c64e773f4dd982bd729f30fd3178 The survey will be
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The House of Representatives Needs to Vote YES on the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Bill H.R. 4! The House of Representatives will be putting the FAA Reauthorization Bill H.R. 4 to a vote this Thursday, April 26th. We need every IAM member to contact their House Representative and tell them to vote YES on H.R. 4.
Dear Sisters and Brothers: As we move closer to the start of negotiations, we need your input into the importance of the issues raised in the proposal submissions. The screening committee sorted all proposals and ranked them. Those proposals were used to create the survey and now you put your ranking in those proposals. Please
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: This week a committee of 16 SWA Union Members met to screen over 2000 proposals submitted by the membership. The committee represents a true cross section of SWA employees, able to present the concerns of full time and part time, all work groups, large and small stations and centers, as well
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: Recently, Southwest Airlines made a change in the company’s bereavement policy. Two major changes took place – in the passing of all listed family members, the employee will be granted 4 days off, rather than 4 or 3 days as provided by the current CBA. Also, taking a bereavement leave will
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Sisters and Brothers: As announced on Friday, we will begin negotiations with Southwest Airlines in May. The next step is for the members to submit proposals for changes to our collective bargaining agreement. Submitting contract proposals is open to ALL Southwest Airlines IAM members. All proposed changes to the contract must be submitted to District
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: Recently, I began discussions with Southwest Airlines to address early opening of contract talks for our Customer Representatives, Customer Service Agents, and Source of Support Representatives. While the contract is not amendable until December 3, 2018, we believe that, by beginning talks early, we improve our chances of achieving an agreement
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