Public Ice Skating at the Tulsa Oilers Ice Center, January 1, 2012.

From 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

FREE

918-252-0011 | OilersIceCenter.net | 6413 S. Mingo, Tulsa

Exclusive for TWU members only, your union card is required for admittance.

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There is a meeting to express your views and opinions on the results. The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6:00 p.m. at Tulsa Tech, Service Center, auditorium CSC 600, 3420 S Memorial Drive, Tulsa, OK 74145. There are many jobs at stake here. Saturday delivery is also on the chopping block. Postal Workers work six days a week so we receive our mail with first- rate service.

We need to support our bothers and sisters at this meeting for. Postal Workers are asking us to attend in numbers to demonstrate that we want work to stay in Tulsa. There are petitions in the grievance office to sign to help save SATURDAY DELIVERY.

If we stand together we can move mountains.

We are meeting behind Home Depot at 901 S. Elgin, Tulsa, at 9:00am for staging.

Remember if you are coming it will be on your own time. Members are to notify their supervisors for a C/S or take vacation if approved to participate in the parade. There will be no guarantee that you will be riding on the float but you are welcome to walk along side to show your support.

Questions:

Please Call

Tony Bunch 918-859-4768

Thanks,

Joe McGill
TWU514 COPE Committee

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Vote to hire a professionally-trained City Manager and help protect our tax dollars from having a political mayor single- handedly making costly decisions, and changing the form of government to one that is

less adversarial. Vote to reduce the number of elections Tulsa holds and save our

tax dollars.

Read what the experts say:

Competitive Cities: A Report Card on Efficiency in Service

Delivery in America’s Largest Cities

BY ADRIAN T. MOORE, JAMES NOLAN, AND GEOFFREY F. SEGAL, WITH MATTHEW TAYLOR

“There are many possible interpretations of why factors may have the effects we found. A few include: Manager vs. Mayor: Perhaps city managers, without the political pressure of running for office, can more readily focus on efficient operations of city services.

Note that of the factors we were able to evaluate, the one that most influenced efficiency by far was city manager vs. elected mayor governance structures—cities with city managers are far more likely to be efficient.”

Tulsans for a Professional Government is made up of hundreds of Tulsans who believe that Tulsa has a bright future and that we need a more balanced government run by a professional City Manager to ensure we reach our full potential.

Since the ballot we have to vote on has two different propositions labeled Proposition 1, we have provided you a sample ballot on the reverse side to help you make a more informed decision.

NOW is the time to make Tulsa better and to start on the right track to make Tulsa better for all Tulsans.

Vote for a better Tulsa!

September 15, 2011

Nobody in Tulsa could have anticipated the lasting impact the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had on the airline industry and many other aspects of our world. But in the years following those events the top management at American Airlines has made uninformed, knee-jerk decisions without fully considering the long-term viability of the company and its workers.

An unfortunate example of this is the 757 Heavy “C” check work that is right on the verge of being sent to outside vendors, thus negatively impacting American Airlines, the Tulsa community and its workers. In the past when American Airlines saw increased work coming, the company would have hired more workers and secured the space to do the work. We took pride in our company being self-sufficient. We were glad to have more work. If we didn’t have the manpower or space – we found it.

Things have changed. Now more than ever we have to jealously guard our work. If we let the 757 work go, what’s next? If we give an inch they will take a mile. Now the American Airlines solution is to look outside the company and outside Oklahoma to handle the additional workload. Some airlines are even servicing aircraft in foreign countries because wages are so much lower. What kind of message does that send to American travelers about our commitment to safety and security?

For a company that lives and dies by daily flight schedules, you would think they would schedule long- term labor needs more deliberately. But they just don’t seem to have the foresight or the common sense. I have more than 20 years experience in maintenance along with many, many other workers here at the base. We have common sense solutions.

Here’s the solution to the 757 Heavy “C” check work: Hire more workers and find additional space. The super hangar in Kansas City would have been perfect, but I understand that has been leased out to some other industry. There is also available space in Dallas. While we want the hiring to take place right here in Tulsa, we would rather American Airlines grow in that way rather than sending it to another company.

Make no mistake, outsourcing is the trend in the airline industry. We face an uphill battle. But we must battle and not give up until we win. This is our history. This is our livelihood. This is tomorrow’s work.