Sisters and Brothers: The joint Alaska Airlines Negotiating Committee continued negotiations with Alaska Airlines management September 11-13, 2018, in Seattle, Washington. It was agreed that whole sessions would no longer be dedicated to either the COPS or RSSA groups, respectively, and as such, both agreements would and could be discussed. Represented by the Company were: […]
Many of you have read the Special Jetwire issued by American Airlines regarding our negotiations. If you don’t read anything else in this bulletin, read this: Beware of any negotiations propaganda issued by the Company. It contains partial examples, misleading statements and outright wrong information. It is true that your negotiating team has reached tentative
Continuing from last week, the parties again met in NYC under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. This week was all Customer Service related. No new developments materialized as the result of this week’s meetings and your negotiating committee continued the work of endeavoring to preserve jobs for those who want to
The IAM/ASIG-ORD 403 Agreement will expire on January 14, 2019 Accordingly, a call for contract proposals is now being made. All proposals are to be submitted on a contract proposal form and received in the District office no later than September 28, 2018 . When submitting more than one proposal, please use separate forms. Each
Brothers and Sisters, Today, September 12, 2018, American Airlines delivered Section 6 notices for all open TWU-IAM Association collective bargaining agreements. Simply stated, a Section 6 notice officially opens contracts under the Railway Labor Act. The TWU-IAM Association welcomes this gesture by the Company as a sign they will now get serious about reaching the
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Sisters and Brothers: We would like to ask you all to take a moment out of your busy day to remember and honor our fellow flight attendants and all those heroes who lost their lives on this day seventeen years ago. So much time has passed, yet we shall not forget September 11th. Every crew
The Union and Company resumed meetings this week in NYC under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The first half of the week was with Engineering Manager Wayne Fraser and Kate Ling, International HR Manager. The Union received a comprehensive proposal consisting only of company proposals with no response to any of
Following the negotiations conducted during the week of August 13th , that resulted in a Tentative Agreement, a ratification vote on the terms of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement was conducted today aboard the Homestead Air Reserve Base in south Florida. With approximately 91 percent of the eligible membership participating in this vote, the Agreement
On August 21-23, 2018 your negotiating committee met in Dallas at Southwest Airlines Headquarters to resume contract negotiations. Present for the company were: Adam Carlisle Sr. Director, Labor Relations, Danielle Reidder, CS&S Regional Director; Dan Kusek, Sr. Mgr., Labor Relations for CSA; Andrea Nivet, Sr. Mgr. Labor Relations for CS&S; Mandy Vitela, Asst. Stn. Mgr.,
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