When the merger between US Airways and American Airlines is announced, what issue will be uppermost on your mind? As you think about your future, your answer will be simple: seniority. Seniority determines not just when and where you work; it also determines if you work. When the American seniority list is “integrated” with…
Category: Take a Stand
Question: IBT Letter Response on 4.8% Equity – 2-11-2013
QUESTION: The IBT has said, in a letter dated February 6, 2012, that “Under the Settlement Agreement that ended American Airlines’ concessionary negotiations with the TWU, American mechanics and related employees are to receive 4.8 percent of the total equity in American….that is allotted to a certain class of unsecured creditors.” They further state that…
Reality Check
Ever notice how a slinky leads with momentum, and the rest of it follows only to end up at the bottom with no way back to the top? DON’T BE A SLINKY. Bankrupt airline union memberships who voted out their original union, lost heavy maintenance to foreign outsourcing. None have brought it back. “Don’t follow…
Reality Check
So you want a new Union because: The old one could not stop American Airlines from going Bankrupt The old one negotiated an agreement that saved Jobs The old one kept your pension frozen rather than GONE The old one fought and kept 31 maintenance docks / lines working The old one kept the outsourcing…
Teamsters Nonsense!
The IBT is again claiming they will reopen our agreement by filing a Section 6 reopener, and that they will magically achieve wage and benefit improvements above what the TWU has negotiated. This claim is nonsense. The law does not provide for any scenario that would allow the IBT to open and renegotiate our contract…
IBT Raid
Last Tuesday TWU Local 514 received several complaints from our members because a union that does not represent them held parties on the base. After investigating this matter, we learned that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters a group that is attempting to decertify the TWU was allowed to send cakes to several work areas for…
Teamster Myth and Teamster Reality
Over the past few days representatives of the Teamsters have been in the press saying that they can protect Tulsa workers against the threat of foreign maintenance and outsourcing of heavy overhaul. With all of these promises you would think that the IBT could point to an agreement in which it actually protected more work than the TWU or…