Harry Lombardo was elected by acclamation by the TWU 24th Constitutional Convention delegates as International President of the Transport Workers Union Tuesday afternoon along with John Samuelson as Executive Vice President, Alex Garcia as Secretary-Treasurer, John Bland and Gary Maslanka as Administrative Vice Presidents. “I feel energized and I pledge every ounce of energy I…
AIRLINE MERGERS: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of American Airlines and US Airways
What GAO Found The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust review will be a critical step in the proposed merger between American Airlines (American) and US Airways. DOJ uses an integrated analytical framework set forth in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines to determine whether the merger poses any antitrust concerns. Under that process, DOJ assesses, among other…
Membership Meeting, Monday, September 30, 2013
Time: 7:15 AM 11:45 AM 3:45 PM 11:30 PM Place : TWU Hall 11929 East Pine Street Regular Order of Business. Discussion and vote on sponsoring the Veterans Day Parade and Halloween event at the Claremore Veteran’s Hospital on an annual basis. Discussion and Vote on sponsorship of the 9-11 “Ride for Freedom” Poker Run. Membership Meeting…
TWU Equity Appeals Process and Deadline
The 30 day appeals window opened on September 23, 2013 and will close on October 23, 2013. All appeals on both the Equity Distribution and Health Insurance will need to be postmarked by October 23, 2013 to be considered as a timely appeal. Anyone filing an appeal should send the appeal by certified mail with…
TWU Kicks Off its 24th Constitutional Convention
Trumpets, drums and bag pipes gave way to the TWU’s 24th Constitutional Convention, Globally United, Stronger Unions, call to order on Monday, September 23 in Las Vegas. TWU Executive Vice President and Chair of the Constitutional Convention, Harry Lombardo, welcomed over 350 Delegates and 55 alternates from across the country representing TWU’s four divisions as…
2014 Surplus
On Monday September 16, 2013, Bill Collins and his staff met with the Local TWU officers, Chairman, and E-board to review the workload for 2014 and 2015. The speculation that a merger with USAir ways would keep the Tulsa base at 90% capacity for two years was information not known to AA management. International President…
Help with Signs!
The Sign Shop will be open TODAY @ 3:30 PM We need your help Assembling about 1000 signs. Come on By and give us a hand, 30 Minutes is all we ask.
AFL-CIO Calls for a Broad and Inclusive Labor Movement and Assisting All Workers to Organize
Excerpted and reposted from: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/AFL-CIO-Calls-for-a-Broad-and-Inclusive-Labor-Movement-and-Assisting-All-Workers-to-Organize Today (Sept. 9, 2013), in a culmination of months of listening sessions and reflection, the AFL-CIO announced that any U.S. worker can join the labor movement and that the labor federation will develop several new pathways for workers to join the labor movement, either through affiliate unions, AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working…
514 – What’s on the plate
Former Tulsa Mayor & Candidate, Kathy Taylor Toured the Base on Tuesday We emphasized the need to update our equipment to work on the newer fleets. Special Election, Chairman of Material Logistics Specialist The ballots are in the mail. Ballots must be postmarked before 8:30 AM October 1st 2013 This is a MLS (Stores) only…
Letter to Equity Committee
September 13, 2013 Don Videtich Transport Workers Union of America 1791 Hurstview Dr. Hurst, TX 76054 RE: Equity Distribution Dear Don, TWU, Local 514 has worked very hard to collect the shops of people we believe should be included in the 757 Equity Distribution. We submitted everything our members brought forward on the work they…