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TWU-ATD Podcast’s 2019
Category: Negotiations
April 17th Tulsa Rally for Educating on Aircraft Safety & Outsourcing
Transport Workers Union & International Association of Machinists Rallying together for Aircraft Safety and Educating on Outsourcing April 17th, 2019 6AM-9AM & 11AM-1PM & 3PM-5PM Tulsa International Airport & Additional Sites We will be across from the Wheel & Brake Center at the old Ford lot, we will be on the southeast corner of Sheridan…
American, AGAIN, Shows Their Corporate Greed
Brothers and Sisters, The Association leadership met with American Airlines executive management Wednesday, April 3rd in Washington, DC. The idea was to have an unfiltered discussion with company decision makers to, hopefully, break the logjam in negotiations. The lower level company negotiators had reached the end of their authority and steadfastly continued their concessionary demands…
Association Negotiations Update
Brothers and Sisters, If American Airlines wants to throw down their version of facts from two people who have never participated in a negotiating session, that’s their prerogative, we’ll throw down the real facts from those who were actually there. Fact: The Mediators assigned by the NMB were informed by the lead Company negotiator that he…
Letter 3-23-19 from Gary Peterson, Air Division Systems Coordinator – RE: American Airlines Negotiations Posting
Dear Brothers & Sisters: The Association Update from TWU International went out yesterday with the added line, “The Time to Prepare for a Potential Lockout by American is Now!” and the IAM version did not. Unfortunately, in today’s world of electronic exchange the two versions did include that minor variance. Irrespective of that, the message…
Brothers and Sisters, This week, American Airlines not only continued to slow roll negotiations, THEY ACTUALLY JUST STOPPED. American’s arrogance and obstinance at the table is a tell-tale sign of their mistaken belief that this membership is okay with them forcing massive concessions on us in Scope and several other Articles. Without Scope, all else…
Association Bulletin 2-15-2019
Brothers and Sisters, Negotiations continued in Atlanta this week. The Executive and the full negotiating committees continued working together at each step of the process and all were fully updated. The company’s hard-line attack on the work Association members do, our Scope, continued throughout the week. The Association’s basic Scope proposals remain to secure the…
AMERICAN AIRLINES SETS ITS SIGHTS ON ELIMINATING TWU/IAM ASSOCIATION WORK
Brothers and Sisters, The Association Executive Committee met with the assigned mediators and a member of the National Mediation Board to gain a better understanding of the remaining open items. The robust dialogue was productive and ensured the meetings would continue throughout the week. We were able to resolve and TA the M&R/MLS Field Trip…
Association Negotiations Update
American Struggles To Say Yes Throughout this week, the Association Executive Negotiating Committee members continued to present reasonable proposals in an effort to reach a JCBA. While some conversations discussed across the bargaining table seemed to reach “supposal agreements in principle,” written proposals returned from the Company continued to revert to their take-it or leave-it…
Association Negotiations Update
Brothers and Sisters, THE TWU/IAM Association Executive Negotiating Committee this week met in full session with American Airlines under the auspices of National Mediation Board Mediators, Jim Mackenzie and Eva Durham, in San Francisco, CA. In addition to the executive committee, the full negotiating committees were also in San Francisco to support and caucus with…