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Category: TWU-514
Foot Clinic
The Visiting Nurse Association of Tulsa will be starting Foot Care Clinics at the TWU Hall, 11945 E Pine St Tulsa, OK. Clinics will be held on the fourth Wednesday of every month beginning February 22, 2012 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The next clinic will be March 28, 2012. Appointments are required. Please…
Leap Year Rally
TWU Local 514 members, retiree’s, and others from the community participated as part of a nation wide picket at the Tulsa International Airport, Wednesday, February 29th. Several thousands of our members and supporters around the system conducted similar pickets. The purpose of this Rally was two fold: First and foremost was to raise awareness of…
Bankruptcy Update, March 2, 2012
TWU Negotiating Committee Update All title groups continued with the bankruptcy negotiations throughout this week. The goal is clear…mitigate the company’s TWU “ask” of over $390 million, including about 9,000 layoffs. Your Negotiating Team leaders analyze the documents, data and business plans. The various experts retained by TWU, assist them as we bargain at a…
Vets Fight for Jobs They Left Behind
Michael Schutz came back to Truman, Minn., after being deployed to Kuwait with the Navy and expected to strap on his gun belt, refasten his badge and slide back into the police cruiser for the city, where he had worked full time as a cop before he left to serve his country. Instead he…
AMR – Court Update 3/1/2012
The Bankruptcy Court approved the debtors’ applications to retain and employ Skyworks Capital, LLC as an aircraft restructuring advisor, McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Company, Inc. Japan as a management consultant and Boston Consulting Group, Inc as a strategic consultant including to review and streamline the debtors’ management structure. As to Boston Consulting Group, Inc., the…
Informational Picket, Tulsa International, 2-29-2012
UStream video: Click Here The Informational picket starts @ 11:00 and will run for 3 hours! Arrival, @ Tulsa International Airport.. Hello Brothers and Sisters, There will be an informational picket at the Tulsa International Airport, on Wednesday, the 29th of February. We need your participation. It will run from 11:00 AM till 2:00pm. This…
Good faith Bargaining?
This is the APFA Update for Feb. 28th… American Airlines continues to make its commitment to busting organized labor on its property crystal clear. Yesterday, the airline’s parent company revealed in its Statement of Financial Affairs an expenditure of nearly $400,000 to a firm that specializes in union busting. American Labor Relations Services, which according…
Interesting tidbits from the AMR/American Airlines bankruptcy case
SOURCE: Dallas News You can find out interesting things in the AMR/American Airlines bankruptcy filings When a company files for Chapter 11 protection under the federal bankruptcy code, it has to disclose a lot of things. That’s true for AMR, American Airlines and the various other subsidiaries. Some of those things are interesting, important or both.…
American paid $12.375 million to advisors/consultants for bankruptcy-related services in the past year
According to the financial statement of American Airlines filed in bankruptcy court on Monday, the carrier paid $12.375 million to nine different advisors and consultant firms related to its bankruptcy filing. The payments were made within the past year immediately prior to its bankruptcy filing made in November. The statement said that these payments were…