OUR UNITY PRODUCED THE BEST CONTRACT EVER NEGOTIATED FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE & RELATED MEMBERS – DON’T LET AN EMPTY ‘AMFA PROMISE’ DESTROY OUR SUCCESS After the merger of American Airlines and US Airways in 2012, the IAM and TWU fought together in solidarity with the singular focus of bargaining the best joint collective bargaining agreement…
It is with a sad heart that we share with you the passing of Brother Jim Cook. Jim started working here in 1996 as an OSM and advanced to an AMT working in hangars 1&2. Please keep the Cook Family in your thoughts and prayers. Obituary for James “Jim” Cook James Eddie “Jim” Cook, 53…
Grievance Process: We are now using the Verbal grievance forms. This past Monday we gave a short training session to the Shop Stewards as to the process of filing the verbal form, as this starts the grievance timeline clock. Initiate Verbal within 5 Days from the time you first have knowledge of a Violation Supervisor…
A small and poorly-resourced association claimed on Friday that it secured the requisite support among mechanic and related workers at American Airlines to call for a representation election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (amfa) filed what is known as an application for investigation for a representation dispute with the National Mediation Board (NMB) Friday afternoon.…
Shop Stewards meetings: Monday, November 16, 2020 we will be holding Shop Stewards meetings in the Union Hall. 7:15am 11:45am 3:45pm This was scheduled as a Joint membership meeting for the month of November 2020. Due to the rise in Covid-19 infection here in Tulsa, we have chosen to limit the meetings size to Shop…
Video with President Dale Danker – Discussion on open issues.. Contact Info, Vacation, Holidays, Base Closure, Seniority Protest, Pay Rate issues and more. Angel Tree: The 2020 Salvation Army Angel Tree program will return this year with a limited run. We have 100 angels adopted that will be placed in different locations throughout the base…
Management will use phrases like “unskilled work” as part of their explanation for having you do another trades job. Management says CC’s will determine who is qualified to do certain work (unskilled work). ARTICLE 8- QUALIFICATIONS E.Qualifications under this Agreement are to be determined by work experience…
AMFA has horrible Scope protection for their members, the only real benefit of the language goes to the Company and the limited amount of M&R represented members the Company has to employ. With so much work allowed to be outsourced, AMFA not only has work performed in overhauls vendor facilities but in reality has…
AMFA organizers LIE about contract implementation, again more fake news! 50+ are implemented, including all Economics and Scope. AMFA had nothing to implement, since they failed to negotiate any significant improvements in 7 years of negotiations AMFA Rebuttal 5
Virtual Membership Meeting for October 26, 2020. https://youtu.be/V0d_5LBLnb0