Brothers and Sisters, The full M&R and Fleet Association Negotiating Committees met this week with the Association Executive Committee in Washington, D.C. Your Committees were fully briefed by the Executive Committee on the negotiation sessions that were held over the last month. As you have seen in our communications over the last week, the company’s…
March 29, 2018 The TWU-IAM Association bargaining committee is committed to fighting for industry-best retirement security. Aside from frozen pension and PBGC benefits that apply to pre-merger employees, today’s retirement benefits for Legacy American Airlines Association members come in the form of a 401(k) with company matching contributions while Legacy U.S. Airways Association members have…
Brothers and Sisters, The TWU-IAM Association is fighting for the industry’s best profit sharing plan. The current American Airlines profit sharing plan is simply inadequate. Even American’s CEO admitted that other airlines have better profit sharing plans. He recognized that those better plans have created a “compensation differential” for Association members that would be addressed…
Brothers and Sisters, Your bargaining committee has chosen to fight for affordable health care. Therefore, we have demanded that American Airlines, the largest and most profitable airline in the world, offer the richer Legacy U.S. Airways plans to all Association members. Under the Association proposal, the company may offer other plans at their discretion. If the…
To: All Title I Represented Employees – AMT/Cleaner RE: Special Crew Chief Self-Demotion Opportunity The AA/TWU Agreement provides for a special fifteen-day window to be established to allow an opportunity for Crew Chiefs to self-demote outside the normal filling of vacancy provisions. The jobs vacated by the self-demotion process will be awarded on a local…
Brothers and Sisters, The TWU/IAM Association seeks to protect your jobs and the WORK you do. Without protecting your work, your job is at risk; and without a job, every other benefit in a contract is meaningless. Steve Johnsen and American are proposing FAKE SCOPE. In their most recent and insulting offer, Steve and company…
Local 514 members: The arduous process to which the New American Airlines’ management team has subjected the TWU members has reached its lowest point. US Airways’ takeover of American Airlines was initially welcomed by the TWU as a lesser of two evils, yet we must admit, at long last, that it has been the worst thing…
March 22, 2018 In this period between scheduled negotiating sessions, the Association leadership met with American Airlines management principals in the hope of better understanding each other’s position on the outstanding issues that need to be resolved in order to conclude negotiations. Significant issues, including wages, job scope protection, pensions and medical benefits remain open. The…
Monday, March 26, 2018 Times: 7:15 AM 11:45 AM 3:45 PM No 11:30 PM Meeting Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Time: 5:00 PM Place: TWU Hall 11929 East Pine Street Agenda • Regular Order of Business March 2018 Membership Meetings in PDF
Dear Brothers & Sisters: As you all know by now, both Secretary-Treasurer Gary Maslanka and Administrative Vice President John Bland are retiring after great careers of advocacy for this membership. It is never easy to say goodbye to friends and colleagues who we have worked with and admired over the years. Even though Gary and…