Please be advised, there is no steward conference scheduled for 2016 for the Southwest stewards. We held a conference last year and spent a large portion of the time discussing the new contract. It was determined with all the other activities scheduled this year, we would not hold a conference this year and look at […]
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Fresh off a two-week recess, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell kicked off today’s session by getting the legislative ball rolling on the Senate’s FAA bill. McConnell moved to proceed to an unrelated House bill (H.R. 636), which will serve as the legislative shell for the Senate’s FAA measure (S. 2658), the first of several steps
As the largest union in the airline industry, the IAM has led the fight to protect Customer Service Agents from assault by hostile customers. We need our IAM members to call their senators immediately and tell them to vote YES to an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill offered by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) that
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Please be advised that we have completed the ratification lump sum bonus true-up calculations. The “true-up” provision in the IAM-Southwest collective bargaining agreement increases our original ratification bonus received in 2014. The amount is based on your pay step and work status—part-time or full-time—at the time the initial ratification bonus was paid in 2014. Again,
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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 142 today announced that due to the “true up” provision negotiated during the last round of collective bargaining, IAM workers at Southwest Airlines will receive an additional $119 million in wages and lump sum payments. “I’d like to thank the IAM negotiating committee at Southwest for
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The process of calculating and verifying the True-up provisions of the IAM contract on Southwest continues. The negotiated protections to wages, bonus payments and 401(k) contributions are significant and require the necessary care to ensure the proper future rates of pay and lump sum bonus payments are accurate. Southwest Airlines has been fully cooperative and
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IAM’s Forward Thinking Negotiations Strategy at Southwest Results in Windfall of Cash for Members. When IAM members at Southwest Airlines ratified their most recent contract in December 2014, they not only received wage increases, lump sum payments and other improvements, they also ratified IAM negotiated protections against falling behind other Southwest employee groups who were
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THANK YOU TO ALL IAM MEMBERS!!! GREAT DAY ON CAPITOL HILL! THANK YOU IAM LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT!! BOTH THE ASSAULT AMENDMENT AND THE 10 HOUR REST RULE FOR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS PASSED AND WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE 2016 FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL. AWESOME JOB!
Felony for Assaulting a Customer Service Agent Amendment has PASSED! Read More »
To the IAM Membership at Southwest Airlines: As you have seen, the TWU has a tentative agreement with their Ops and Ramp agents. Congratulations to them. Like negotiations with many companies with multiple unions on the property, each union follows the other and gets more, in essence, leap-frogging each other. The IAM anticipated this when
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The Union and Southwest Airlines met in Dallas, Texas for scheduled discussions on Monday August 31, September 1 and 2, 2015. The purpose of the meetings were to continue reviewing all of the Articles of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between Southwest Airlines and the IAMAW for any necessary modifications specific to SOS. There are
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