TWU Negotiating Committee Update All title groups continued with the bankruptcy negotiations throughout this week. The goal is clear…mitigate the company’s TWU “ask” of over $390 million, including about 9,000 layoffs. Your Negotiating Team leaders analyze the documents, data and business plans. The various experts retained by TWU, assist them as we bargain at a…
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Informational Picket, Tulsa International, 2-29-2012
UStream video: Click Here The Informational picket starts @ 11:00 and will run for 3 hours! Arrival, @ Tulsa International Airport.. Hello Brothers and Sisters, There will be an informational picket at the Tulsa International Airport, on Wednesday, the 29th of February. We need your participation. It will run from 11:00 AM till 2:00pm. This…
Good faith Bargaining?
This is the APFA Update for Feb. 28th… American Airlines continues to make its commitment to busting organized labor on its property crystal clear. Yesterday, the airline’s parent company revealed in its Statement of Financial Affairs an expenditure of nearly $400,000 to a firm that specializes in union busting. American Labor Relations Services, which according…
AMR Bankruptcy Update for February 27, 2012
NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE AMR SAYS NO TO EARLY OUT AS DESIGNED Late Friday AA presented its rationale for rejecting TWU’s proposal for an early out proposal. The Company asserts that the program as designed is too costly. However, AA indicated that it would still review such concepts during the entire 1113 process. An early out program…
AMR Bankruptcy Update for February 24, 2012
TWU Negotiating Committee This week TWU Negotiators started passing first round counter proposals to the company after hours of relentless study, some of it over the past two weekends. All seven work groups drafted proposals for their respective units, responding to AMRs ask of $390 million dollars in cost savings from TWU represented workers. The…
AMR Bankruptcy Update for February 8-10, 2012
This week the TWU Negotiating Team methodically scrutinized the company’s reorganization plan and spent much of each day analyzing company financial data and spread sheet comparisons. Individual work groups began drafting their questions for the company and presented some to them on Thursday afternoon. Others will follow into next week. The questions passed to AMR…
This Week @ Local 514
Negotiations Update: The information you received yesterday, 2-1-2012, was distributed to the media and published to AA web sites, yet it was not shared with the Negotiations Committee. Now that the negotiations committee has seen these proposals we know that they are asking for much more than they can justify. The numbers given out are…
Today’s the day of the bad news at AMR, American Airlines and American Eagle
This from: Dallas News Here’s what we expect, in general: Around 10 a.m., chairman, president and CEO Tom Horton will begin describing the company’s business plan for reorganization as he meets with leaders of the Allied Pilots Association, Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Transport Workers Union. Beverly Goulet, vice president, treasurer and chief restructuring officer,…
AMR Bankruptcy – February 1st Meetings
Dear Brothers and Sisters: The meetings scheduled for February 1, 2012 will take place at Flagship University in the Americana Room . The AA group will meet at 10:00 am and the purpose of this meeting is to initiate the process for changes to our collective bargaining agreements pursuant to Section 1113 of the Bankruptcy…
Federal National Mediation Board Asserts that the Agency is Still a Key Part of the Labor Negotiation Process at American and American Eagle Despite AMR’s Bankruptcy Filing
DALLAS – Representatives of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and executives from AMR subsidiary American Eagle were notified Wednesday evening that the National Mediation Board (NMB) remains committed to helping unions at American Airlines and American Eagle reach labor agreements with parent company AMR – despite the company’s November bankruptcy filing. TWU represents ground workers,…