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…
All, The negotiating committee met in Dallas this past week. We did clerical work on the T/A’s we have completed thus far. This work must be accomplished so if the executive committee extracts industry leading T/A’s on the open economic articles we can quickly move to get a correct copy in front of you to…
Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee this week met face to face with American Airlines in Washington D.C. Complete Tentative Agreements were reached on: Classifications MTS Discussions continued on the MLS Classifications Article that contains some Scope provisions. The parties continued to narrow their positions in this article. Scope discussions were completed for MTS,…
Brothers and Sisters, The full negotiating committees met with Association attorneys in December to prepare our Scope proposals followed by a sub-committee meeting in Washington D.C. the week of January 2nd to the 5th, along with the Association legal team to finalize these Scope proposals. The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines…
All, I’m not one to write long winded letters or make videos when I don’t have anything to report out so this is going to be short. As soon as I get an email from the TWU International with a meeting date and time, I plan to send Jay Potter to DC. He will…
December 15, 2017 Association, AA Executive Session Negotiations Continue Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Dallas. All groups concentrated on internal discussions and deliberations in concert with the Association legal team on Scope language that will protect our work and jobs in the new…
Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington, D.C. This session focused on Maintenance Control Technicians (MCT) and Maintenance Training Specialists (MTS) along with other Mechanic & Related and Stores language. Substantial progress was made in several non-economic articles. The constructive dialog and productive environment…
Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington DC. This session was focused on Maintenance Training Specialists (MTS) and was very productive. Non-economic articles were discussed. Constructive dialog in a productive environment helped the parties significantly narrow their positions in numerous articles that produced an agreement on most outstanding language issues. Complete Tentative Agreements were…
All, It is with great regret that we are once again just getting one day off during the Thanksgiving holiday. If I write a long letter it will be 100% negative talking about the company we work for. So…..I will wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving and let you know we have secured the 3…
Brothers and Sisters, The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington DC. The Letters of Agreement that were reviewed and designated by the Association subcommittee, were presented to the company. An agreement was reached by the parties on what letters will still need to be discussed and incorporated…