Vice President: Union Steward Meeting I attended the YELL conference in Stillwater this week with Joe Brown, Paul Clark, and Joseph Callaway. We were reminded of what the Unions gave us, from 40-hour work weeks, overtime pay, holidays, vacation, benefits, representation, etc. The Women’s Committee is currently supporting a School Supply drive. All supplies will…
Vice President: Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2025 election for our new board members! I’m confident that this exceptional group of leaders will do a great job representing your interests in all future matters. We have a total of 1330 grievances. The majority of those deal with known crew chief outages and…
President: All, I want to express my gratitude to all those who put their names on the election ballot. Being selected to represent the TWU 514 membership is never just an 8-hour job. Over the years, I’ve heard complaints about not working a particular shift and not covering the grievance office 24/7. We have tried…
Vice President: Management should not be assigning people to work. They may direct a crew chief on what needs to be done. If a supervisor or manager is assigning you work please notify a Union representative. Confidentiality: The state of keeping or being kept secret or private. We deal with many issues. While most of…
President: All, Jay Potter and I traveled to Chicago this week to present the Dodgeball grievance in Mediation. We went prepared with the knowledge gained from interviewing Crew Chiefs in AO and some Crew Chiefs in the shop areas. The overwhelming statements from the Crew Chief’s is that they want to know who their crew…
President: Jay Potter and I traveled this week to Miami, Florida to sit with the Association Attorneys and go through the “dodgeball” presidential grievance and other grievances that have an impact on the company’s violation of the bid process. The review went well and the attorney we worked with thought our presentation was organized and…
President: All, Jay Potter and I will travel to Miami, FL, next week to meet with the Association attorneys to prepare the Presidential grievance, which I call “dodgeball”, for Mediation on July 8th. Thank you to everyone who took the time to give us input. If a settlement cannot be reached, the case will move…
President: Brothers and Sisters, TWU Local 514 represents many classifications that reside in 4 contract books. They are MCT (Maintenance Control Technicians), MTS (Maintenance Training Specialists, MLS (Material Logistic Specialists and the M&R book (Maintenance and Related). Sometimes, the Company attempts to have one classification do another group’s work. The IAM did not have Tech…
President: I want to give a thank you to all the Crew Chiefs and a special thank you to Crew Chiefs Gary Sutherland, Brandon Duffy, Steve Corbett, Jeff Jones and Steve Fowkes. Your input concerning the continued deterioration of Tulsa’s ability to produce safe, reliable, on time aircraft was greatly appreciated. We will soon be…
President: Brothers and Sisters, This week, I traveled to Headquarters for a Scope/Outsourcing meeting and to support our Local 514 MCT members at American Airlines Operations Center by delivering their AMT Day gifts. While there, I reached out to COO David Seymour for a coffee. When we met about a month ago, he asked me…