Category: President

Dale Dankers Posting to the membership.

Joint Letter on Association

Listen to the Joint Presidents 514, 567 & 591 Podcast on this topic:   To all Association Members: Today starts the next step in our efforts to deliver a long overdue, and promised vote on which Union, TWU or IAM, should represent all the Members in the Association within the M&R and MLS ranks. The…

President Dale Danker – March 2022 Summary Report – VIDEO

    1:04 Base Business Review 2:12 RO meeting, Jay Potter 3:24 Organizing Training 3:37 AMT Day 4:27 TWU President John Samuelsen to visit Tulsa 5:46 Training issues as Basic classification 6:49 Cafeteria food options 7:14 MLS member bullying new hires 8:16 Weather Event-how they are handled 9:03 grievance backlog 10:11Reggie Jones and FLOC committee…

Weather Event Friday March 11, 2022

We have another weather event upon us. This will be for 1st and 2nd shift Friday March 11, 2022. During this weather event the company has stated that all DAT’s and Comp days will be approved, If you don’t have any DAT or Comp days available, you can then use a VTO day. Send an…

President Danker Summary Reports VIDEO

  Summary Report: Jan 18 – 21 Attended meeting in Miami Fl. with Gary Schaible and Rollie Reeves with John Samuelson and Garcia to discuss structural issues within the Air Division. Jan 26th Attended a Base Business Review  with Greg Emerson VP of Base maintenance.  400 lost days of production Meaning that AA slipped a…

President Danker on meeting in Dallas with Mike Mayes

Meeting Date: Monday, January 31st 2022   All,   I attended a meeting in Dallas to discuss internal structural issues within the Air Division of the TWU.  Mike Mayes chaired the meeting with Rollie Reaves, Gary Schaible, Gary Peterson and myself. We discussed the continued erosion of Local autonomy from decisions that were recently made…

President Danker speaking on Jan 2022 Base Business Review.

Update, Last week in Miami Florida with the TWU International working on internal issues. Today I am in Dallas @ DWH with Base Maintenance to have discussions with the Company. They are pushing Tuesday -Wednesday off rather than making every attempt to have Saturday – Sunday off as per our current CBA. Dale President TWU…

Year end Review from President Dale Danker

514 Members, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off with family and friends over the holidays. It is disappointing that in Negotiations the importance of Base closure was not taken seriously by the union leadership. In secrecy, they negotiated parts of this contract that are negatively impacting those in Tulsa.  I know one of our…