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…
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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,…
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,…
National Mediation Board Meeting Notifications
Board Member Harry Hoglander and Director of Mediation Services Larry Gibbons will hold a status conference. View the notices below: Meeting Notice – NMB Case Numbers A-13472 A-13491 in PDF Subject: NMB Case Numbers: A-13472 & A-13491 American Eagle Airlines, Inc. & TWU Board Member Harry Hoglander and Director of Mediation Services Larry Gibbons will…
TWU Stores Update 10-14-2011
October 14, 2011 After nearly 5 months since the last meeting between American Airlines and the TWU Stores Negotiating Committee, Contract Negotiation Mediation reconvened in Los Angeles, California on October 12th and 13th, 2011. On Wednesday, October 12th, the Stores Negotiations Committee met with AA management and mediator Jack Kane. The Company passed the first…
Stores Negotiations Update – 05/20/11
On Tuesday May 17, 2011, the Stores Negotiations Committee met with management and mediator Jack Kane. Following a Power Point Presentation that had comparisons between the various proposals and competitors for Stores, the Company then submitted counter proposals for: Article 1 – Recognition & Scope Article 4 – Compensation Article 5 – Shift Differential Article…
TWU Stores Contract Mediation Update
Today at 11:30 a.m. the Stores Negotiating Committee Co-Chairman Local 562 Secretary Treasurer Steve Gukelberger and ATD International Representative Don Videtich had a conference call with NMB Mediator Jack Kane. Mediator Kane advised us that he has designated two days for the Mechanic and Related Committee and the Company on April 28th and 29th. He…
Stores Update, March 15, 2011
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our last session of Negotiations that concluded last Friday, the stores Negotiating Committee made the decision to pass all of the remaining articles to the Company. On Thursday, March 10, the Stores Negotiations Committee met with the Company to pass the last 9 articles. The articles that were passed to…
TWU Stores Contract Mediation Update 3/07/11- 3/11/11
The TWU Stores Negotiations Committee reconvened Negotiations with American Airlines in Hurst, Texas on March 7-11. This session in Mediation was attended by Jack Kane and Walter Darr of the National Mediation Board. The Stores Negotiations Committee members gathered at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, March 7, 2011, at which time the Company gave the Committee…