In a move that will lead to joint contract negotiations for more than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Transport Workers Union (TWU), the two unions today jointly petitioned the National Mediation Board (NMB) asking it declare that post-merger American Airlines and US Airways are now operating as a…
Category: TWU-514
Shop Steward Training: The TWU-IAM Association Agreement
The July Steward Training covered the upcoming Association Agreement that our membership will soon be voting on. We began the training by going over the Trumka letter that aired his concern of a costly labor battle amongst AFLCIO Unions while not adding a single new member to organized labor. Trumka encouraged the TWU and IAM…
Shop Steward Meeting, Monday August 11, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014 Time …………………….. 7:15 AM 11:45 AM 3:45 PM Place ……………………..TWU Hall 11929 East Pine Street Agenda Regular Order of Business Training: Seniority Integration/Preferential Hiring Gary Yingst Vice President SS Meeting Notice August 2014 in PDF
GSW Vice Chairman Eligible Candidates
Candidates Bill Jackson John Estes Approved for Posting: Shawn Allan, Chairman Local 514 Election Committee Letter in PDF: GSW Vice Chairman Election- Eligible Candidates
New 737 Heavy Check HOC 1&2 and Transfer Suspension letters from AA
New 737 Heavy Check HOC 1&2 From: Mark Easton Managing Director ,AO&M Recent changes to the MD80 fleet plan have eliminated the need to restart the second heavy check line in August. The workload demand on the 757 fleet in HOC 5&6 will decrease due to the completion of LC/MC on dock 5C. While these…
Blood Drive for July 2014
TULE Base July 10, 8am-2pm July 11, 8am-2pm July 14, 8pm-2am July 15, 8pm-2am July 16, 2pm-8pm July 17, 8am-2pm July 18, 8am-2pm Blood Drive June July – PDF
MD-80 Line: Not to Return
To All, We were made aware this morning from Mark Easton that the second MD-80 Heavy check line, that was suspended for the summer schedule, will not restart in August as originally planned. Without that MD80 Heavy check, Easton predicts that this change could equate to about a 100 AMT surplus in Aircraft Overhaul and Maintenance.…
Passing of Maureen Hall, the beloved wife of former International President Sonny Hall
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We regret to inform you that Maureen Hall, the beloved wife of former International President Sonny Hall, passed away on Friday. The International leadership extends its deepest condolences to President Hall, the visionary labor reformer who led our union through a period of critical transformation. His wife Maureen was beloved by…
AA’s Elimination of “Flex Vacation” – TWU Immediately files 29D Grievance – June 5, 2014
American Airlines has came to the determination that Flex Vacation will be eliminated Effective January 1, 2015 for All TWU-represented employees. You can read the letter from James Weel, MD Labor Relations HERE This was the reply from David Virella: Subject: 29(d) Grievance – Article 8 violation Dear Jim: In accordance with Article 29 (d) of…
The final version of the Base Field Trip and Overtime Guidelines
If you read through the Letter from Mark Nelson you will see that the field trip guidelines zeroed out in January of 2014. That obviously didn’t occur so each location was to determine how they were going to implement this piece. TUL and TWU 514 have agreed to zero out the FT on the second Monday in…