Washington –The President of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), Harry Lombardo, today announced that the International Association of Machinists (IAM) would have TWU’s full support in its efforts to seek release from the federal National Mediation Board (NMB). Under the Railway Labor Act, airline and railroad workers in the United States must seek…
Category: US Airways
514 – What’s on the plate
Stand in Stead Deadline is March 10, 2014 Read more HERE Equity Distribution As this process goes, AA determines the “when and if” of the distributions. The only statement that seemed official is that the final distribution will be on the 120th day. The last distributions were posted by AA the week of the distribution.…
IAM & US Airways – Negotiation Update: NMB MEETING SCHEDULED
The National Mediation Board (NMB) has scheduled meetings between the principal representatives in the US Airways – IAM negotiations. The meetings are set for March 18 and 19, 2014 at the offices of the NMB in Washington, DC. While preparations continue for a proffer of arbitration, rejection of that proffer and the establishment of a…
514 – What’s on the plate
Stock Distribution #3 From Jetnet: More Shares on the Way for U.S.-Based Legacy American Employees As a reminder, these shares will be available to eligible employees in their Computershare account, which is available by first logging into their retireonline.com account with J.P. Morgan. More HERE International Executive Council meeting in SJU Letter requesting David Seymour,AA’s senior vice president…
Vacancies with IAM and US Airways Letter from Gary Yingst to the ATD
Dave Virella AA System Coordinator Sean Doyle AA Maintenance Rep. RE: Vacancies Dave and Sean, Local 514 is requesting that our International approach the IAM and US Air Management regarding any vacancies for Mechanics at their bases or line stations. We would ask that before they hire off the street our laid off TWU Mechanics,…
MOU pay increase to be reflected in December 20th paycheck.
We reached out to payroll and they informed us that the new rate of pay as reflected in Jetnet will be visible on Thursday, Dec. 12th. As previously communicated the actual pay increase will be reflected in the Dec. 20th paycheck for Weekly and Biweekly Title I/II/III/V/ MCTs and Sim Techs retroactive to Dec. 9th. For…
AA/US Airways Merger Celebration
Sisters and Brothers, Do to the fact that we are still under a concessionary contract I see no reason to celebrate or participate in the merger celebration today at the base. Dale Danker President, TWU local 514 Merger Celebration Letter in PDF
Joint American and US Airways press release regarding the merger, November 27, 2013
AMR CORPORATION EMERGENCE FROM CHAPTER 11 AND MERGER CLOSE EXPECTED ON DEC. 9 Notice Filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court FORT WORTH, Texas and TEMPE, Ariz, – Today, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the settlement of the lawsuit reached with the U.S. Department of Justice and certain states relating…
AMR Merger update from TWU’s Sharon L. Levine
As you likely heard, Judge Lane approved the Debtors’ motions regarding the Rule 9019 settlement of the Clayton Act and authorizing immediate consummation of the Plan and the Merger. The Court also denied the Alioto Plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order. As part of the bench ruling during a thirty minute hearing that just…
Bankruptcy judge approves American’s settlement with DOJ
U.S. bankruptcy judge Sean Lane approved American Airlines’ and US Airways’ antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, clearing the legal path for the two airlines to complete their merger. Lane also rejected a request for a temporary restraining order from San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto. Alioto, who represents about 40 plaintiffs…