President: This week, I attended meetings in Calgary with Gary Schaible, Rollie Reaves, several TWU reps, and other airline workers worldwide to discuss mental health issues amongst our work groups. In our current state, we have EAP counselors both Union and Company for our folks to reach out to. Still, it was clear to me…
Major Safety Wins, But More Must Be Done Foreign aircraft repair facilities are now subject to drug and alcohol testing and flight dispatchers are no longer allowed to work remotely but there’s still plenty of work needed from the Federal Aviation Administration to fully implement last year’s FAA Reauthorization law. Friday, May 16 marks…
President: The company has informed the Association that some engine work being performed in Tulsa and other stations will be outsourced due to the tariffs being imposed by the Government. It is QEC-type work here in Tulsa and not heavy engine overhaul on the Trent 800 series engines used on the 777. The company…
TO: TWU-IAM Association Membership RE: PHX and TUL Engine Work Update On Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, American Airlines notified The Association of their intention to send some engine work being performed in PHX and TUL out to a vendor due to the tariffs being implemented by the current administration in Washington, DC. The Company assured…
Vice President: The May Membership Meeting has been rescheduled to May 12, 2025 Nominations for Officer positions will be conducted as part of the agenda at this meeting. Grievance Report We currently have a total of 1235 open grievances. 857 of those are overtime bypass with the majority being Crew Chief known outage grievances. We…
*Monday, May 12, 2025 Time: 7:15 AM 11:45 AM 3:45 PM Place: TWU Hall11929 East Pine Street, Tulsa, OK 74116 Agenda Regular Order of Business Nominations for Officer positions will be conducted as part of the agenda at these Membership Meetings. *Note – Due to Election Nominations, May 29th Membership Meetings has been rescheduled toMay…
President: This week I attended the Grievance Review Board at AA HDQ. I’m proud of the Eboard and Union stewards for getting a larger volume of grievances ready to go to the meeting. However, one thing is glaringly clear that I need to share with everyone. If you feel like you are bypassed for…
Monday, April 28, 2025Time: Place: Agenda
President: Tuesday Jay Potter, Don McCormick and I started interviewing Crew Chiefs to gather information about the Presidential Grievance I filed for Tulsa concerning the crew chief and crew bid process. We will continue that process over the next months until we have reached everyone. Also on Tuesday the Eboard met with Ed Sangricco to…
President: This week, I attended MRO Americas in Atlanta to help kick off TWU International’s involvement in our base and line mechanics competitions. A big round of applause to our teams. I want to share a conversation I had with a crew chief that was alarming to me. We were talking about how the crew…