Category: Bankruptcy

Title I and V Rif Reduction View December 2012

If you have received a RIF Notice, Be sure to get on JetNet and make your selections before November 6th, 2012. If you fail to do so, you will be automatically Laid Off to the street. Below is the RIF Reduction View for Title-I DEC 2012 Title-I RIF Reduction View In PDF Below is the RIF…

RIF Dates for Title I and V: Posted – 10-25-2012

Title I and Title V October 24-29 Stations Print and Distribute RIF Notification Letters October 30 Options Window, Opens 10AM CDT November 6 Options Window CLOSES @ 10AM CDT November 7 -12 Talent Services to process virtual awards November 13 Accept/Decline Window Opens 10AM CDT – Round 1 ONLY 24 HOURS November 14 Accept/Decline Window CLOSES…

Title II November/December Reduction in Force Options Window Extension

This came from Talent Services.. The Option Selection window for Title II has been extended to October 26, Friday, at 10:00 AM Central Time.   Keep in mind that due to the virtual RIF, employees identified as impacted, junior stations and local displacement will receive RIF notification letters. If your location has no reductions but has…

Exclusivity Extension Sought

In a document filed October 16, 2012, in Bankruptcy Court, The Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) and AMR filed a joint motion requesting a 30-day extension to the exclusivity period. The Motion cites the parties’ ongoing consideration of strategic alternatives as an important reason for this extension. A copy of the filing is available here.

TWU Local 514 Dramatically Offsets Tulsa Layoffs

(TULSA, Okla.) — Transport Workers Union Local 514 announced Friday that it has been able to dramatically offset the number of airline mechanics who will be laid off in Tulsa. At the beginning of the bankruptcy the Company’s term sheet identified a reduction of 2,700 jobs in Tulsa. After lengthy discussions and bargaining by TWU…

TWU Local 514 Reduction in Force Numbers October 5, 2012

Total number of TWU Local 514 effected by the RIF : 443 members. AMT =  300 Facilities Maintenance = 0 Stores = 0 Fleet Service = 143 Total “Early Out”: 742 Title I = 592 Title II = 61 Title III = 33 Title V = 56 Total Stand in Stead: 50 Title I = 33…

TWU Reduces Layoffs at American by 80 percent

Dallas –Strategic bargaining by the Transport Workers Union has reduced the number of anticipated layoffs at American Airlines by eighty percent, the union said today. Just over 2,800 TWU-represented workers at American Airlines have elected an “early out”/retirement option, negotiated earlier this year by union workers and management during the bankruptcy reorganization of the airline’s…

Clarification on Retiree Medical

With respect to the question below, I just want to make sure everyone is clear that if a TWU represented employees enrolls in retiree medical prior to 11/1/2012, they will be in the prefunding retiree medical plan, which means they will not automatically get the employee contributions or the company match, since that will be subject to…