Your Maintenance and Related Negotiating Committee met in Kansas City, Missouri on June 8th thru the 11th.
A separate sub-committee reviewed Article 12 for System and Base applications and reported back to the full committee.
Your Negotiating committee formed a comprehensive proposal and presented it to the company. Continued…
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– June 12, 2009
Mediator: Jack Kane
Technical Specialist Negotiating Committee: Howard McKinney, Gary Moffitt, and Don Videtich
AA Negotiating Committee: Jim Weel and Bob Dubreuil.
Final disposition and agreement on all outstanding Letters of Agreement, Letters of Understanding and Letters of Memorandum was reached.
Discussions and proposals on the use of relief assignments were exchanged.
All full text Tentative Agreements will be published at: http://aa.twu.org/tentativeagreements/tentative.asp.
Your negotiating committee appreciates your continued patience and support, both of which are essential as we try to secure a work schedule and pay package acceptable to you. You are also reminded that we are still in the first steps of what can be a long mediation process.
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– June 12, 2009
This latest round of Negotiations with American Airlines was held in Kansas City, MO this week. Our first session with NMB Mediator Jack Kane at the Negotiating Table netted some positive results as the two parties were able to come to a Tentative Agreement on 4 Articles. Continued…
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– June 12, 2009
Dear Colleagues,
The airline industry has been hard hit by the recession. The past year has been a period of change and adjustment for our maintenance organization and all of American Airlines. Continued…
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– June 11, 2009
There is a new proposal from the Obama administration. This one gets into the board rooms.. not the blue collar workers pocket. What an idea…
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– June 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement today in reaction to the Obama Administration’s intent to nominate Deborah Hersman as Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board: Continued…
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– June 10, 2009
Transportation Unions Applaud Re-Appointment of Hoglander to National Mediation Board
WASHINGTON, DC – Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement today in reaction to the Obama Administration’s intent to nominate Harry Hoglander as a Member of the National Mediation Board: Continued…
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– June 10, 2009
June 9, 2009
There have been questions about the observance of the July 4th holiday. Article 7(c) states that if the holiday falls on your day off, your next workday will be observed as the holiday providing that you are on a 5/8’s schedule. In this case the July 4th holiday will fall on Monday the 6th. Continued…
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– June 9, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.3 percent more pilots and 5.9 percent more maintenance workers in 2008 than in 2007 while total industry jobs declined by 3.0 percent, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today (Table 1). Continued…
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– June 3, 2009