Vice President:

Attending the TWU International MLK Event in Miami, FL, was an honor. I, along with Tracy Hardin and Lisa Prince. We spent the weekend volunteering for community service and participated in the parade.

Article 28 – Safety and Health

“A. The company hereby agrees to maintain safe, sanitary and healthful conditions in all facilities and to maintain at all times a registered first aid station to take care of its employees in case of accident or illness.”
It has come to my attention that the bathrooms, ice machines, and water fountains are not being maintained clean and sanitary. If you notice any area that is not up to industry standards, please call it in ext. 2500.

Article 14 – Hours of Service

“K. Adverse Condition Day – When a decision is made by Federal, State or Local 28 Government officials that prohibits an individual employee from reporting to work 29 (i.e. Travel Ban, Curfew, or State of Emergency), the employee will notify the 30 Company as soon as practical, and the Company will approve the options listed 31 below. 32 33

1. An employee who is scheduled and reports to work on time will be entitled to full pay for the day, unless the employee voluntarily agrees to either take the rest of the day off without pay, or to use any other compensated time off (excluding block vacation and sick) to make up his wages for time missed when absent due to adverse conditions.

2. An employee arriving later than the beginning of the shift will be paid only for the actual hours worked and may use HAT (paid in a minimum of one (1) hour increments at straight time) to cover any time lost, or take time missed without pay at the employee’s option.

3. When an employee is absent due to adverse conditions, and is unable to report to work, he will not receive regular pay for that day. The employee, at his option, may use any other compensated time off (excluding block vacation and sick) to make up his wages for time missed when absent due to adverse conditions.

4. If any of the above applies, an employee will not be charged with an absence/tardiness under the attendance control policy.”
We have received many calls about T.E. days. Per Article 14 (above), it is doubtful the company will be calling any T.E. days. However, if you feel it is unsafe to drive to work, send the Admin along with your management team an email letting them know you are unable to be at work due to safety and ask for a DAT or a COMP day.
We will notify you as soon as we hear what the company is allowing, but we cannot approve you to stay home.

American Airlines Education Foundation Scholarship

The Education Foundation scholarship applications are open through February 29th for the 2024-2025 academic year in Jetnet.

Students who are children or dependents of American Airlines Group team members and will be enrolled in college, university, or trade school are eligible to apply.

Marla Johnson

Recording Secretary:

Education Foundation scholarship

Starting Jan. 4, eligible students can apply to receive a scholarship through the American Airlines Education Foundation for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Dependents of active team members can apply for the Education Foundation scholarship, and descendants of former Trans World Airlines (TWA) employees can apply for the TWA scholarship, which is funded by the TWA Hotel. The application window for both scholarships closes Feb. 29, and recipients will be notified by email this summer.

Terry Buck

Chairman of Maintenance:

Safety

We are short on ERTs for the off shifts and weekends; if interested, please contact Brent.anderson@aa.com
Parking lot safety issues – speed bumps are in place, and new stop signs are posted.
Hangars 5 and 6 would like to add more team members to their safety team; please get in touch with brian.drenthe@aa.com

Construction area detours and allowable walkways.

Please follow all signs and detour signs.

AAERO 9FF

AAERO Tool & Die / Test Cell Bid Area Realignment concerns

Weekly Grievance Meetings and Comms Meetings

Bids and Transfers

please look at the shop requirements before placing a bid

BBR

George and I attended the BBR in Dallas last week; the company provided a lot of good info

Joe Brown
(918) 284-9666
JBrown@twumail.org

Chairman of Material Logistics Specialist:

We currently have 100 open grievances. 42 Known outage, 19 Levels, 2 Termination / Leave, 19 OT and 19 Misc.
Shipping and CMS will separate for May Bid.
472 MLS on Base, 17 LOA, we had a bunch retire at the end of 2023 and transfer back to their field station after they finished their probation.
Store supervisors will start their new schedules next week.
6 more new hires should start end of February,
Management sticking to ratio so please utilize DAT/COMP Swap.
New training has dropped.
Held a meeting to discuss our TWU Family Event for June 1st. Please save the date.

B.J. Rackers
(918) 346-8918
bjracker@twumail.org

Executive Board Members at Large:

George Albano:

Continue discussing grievances with Bryan Beene.
Helping Members with their Union Benefits.
Attended 32Js.
Helping Members with FMLA.
Attended BBR with Joe at DFW.
Visited MOC & sat in on a few calls.
Helping Members with EAP.
Attended a welfare & entertainment meeting with Don, BJ & Daron.
Volunteers needed for Family Day on June 1st at Mohawk Park. Please consider donating a couple of hours to make this event a success. See an Officer for details.

George Albano
918-378-1947
GAlbano@twumail.org

Gene Chapin:

Continue working in grievance office starting at 5:00 am
Grievance meeting with management Friday
Settled two field trip grievances
Attended 32j for attendance and performance
Working on grievances daily and walking the floor.

Gene Chapin
918-640-2097
GChapin@twumail.org

Tracy Hardin:

Remember to check the Fidelity website if you have a flexible spending account. If you FSA is not funded and you do not have a card, call them to get things setup.

Add this to your new year things to do, the Union Sportsmen Alliance calendar is available to order. Don’t miss out on the hunting and fishing stories, tips, and of course the weekly drawings. You can get your very own at www.unionsportsmen.org

Did You Know:

In January 1937, two boiler room engineers for the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation power plant in Brooklyn, NY, were fired for union activity. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) and their non – union co-workers locked themselves in the building and threatened to shut down the city’s subway lines. They quickly came to their senses and reinstated the workers.

They must have been writing grievances.

Tracy
(918) 409-5962
THardin@twumail.org

Don McCormick:

This current Executive Board is halfway through its 3 year term. When we started, we were at roughly 3300 Grievances. We have reduced it down to 1700 in 18 months which is a 48% reduction. We hope to be below 1000 by the end of the year. Any issues you have, make sure you get with a Union Steward and provide all the needed documentation and information to prove your issue. This will enable us to have a better understanding and chance of winning the argument.

HGR 5/6

(1) 787 Line was inducted into hangar 6C a couple weeks ago. The ineptness of our vendors performing the work on these and the World Class Maintenance that we perform has the company moving the next 4 787’s into 6C through May. If we continue to thrive on the 787 product, we can continue to bring the planes back into the TULSA Base.
737 line has been absorbed by HGR 1/2/3 through dock planning through May to accommodate the 787.
HR is working on removing the 55 disciplinary letters put into members files from Crew meetings. Let us know if these are still in your MyView. We were told these would be resolved and removed almost 3 weeks ago.

Welfare and Entertainment

Tulsa Oilers Hockey – They are 18-16 with most events sold out. We have tickets at the Union Hall available from Katie M-F 7am-11am and 12pm to 4pm. They are also available at the Grievance office. Call x3213 to see if an officer is available. Games are this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as well as the same days next weekend.
Family Day 2024. This will be June 1st at Mohawk Park and the Tulsa Zoo. More details to follow in the coming months.

Don
(918) 378-5923
DMcCormick@twumail.org

Daron Morgan:

Thank you everyone that attended the January Membership meeting on Thursday January 25th. Our next membership meeting will be on Monday February 26th. As our Union is preparing for upcoming e negotiations, I would strongly recommend that all members make some meetings. At the Hall, you can get the facts, on the floor you may get rumors.

I continuing working new and old grievances, and preparing grievances for the February GRB

We have pocket calendars, wall calendars, Hockey tickets, and some M&R Contract Books available in the Grievance office

I’ve sat in on multiple 32J’s for various reasons

Pre-bankruptcy, we had a fully staffed TWU Facilities Maintenance Team. Post Bankruptcy, our TWU Facilities Team has shrunk, and the quality of our FACILITIES have gone downhill. The only thing that has increased, is the number of Contractors that we have on base. Never get complacent and think that this cannot happen to your workgroup. This is just the beginning. If you have facility maintenance issues in your area, contact Sam Neal. He is the Director of Facility Maintenance, Also, you can contact Ed Sangricco, now that Tulsa Facilities falls under him. I would like to thank all of our remaining facilities maintenance team, as they are doing the very best that they can, with what they have to work with.

Grievance Office phone number, 918-660-6222

Daron
918-402-0089
DMorgan@twumail.org

Jay Potter:

Base Outsourcing

We currently have 25 aircraft at our 4 In-house Maintenance Bases (CTO, PIT, DWH, and TULE).
- 10 of these aircraft are check aircraft (MBV or C11).
The five (5) HMP vendors have 33 aircraft.
- 30 of these aircraft are check aircraft (MBV, C11, or S).
  - BFM_VT MAE, Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Mobile, AL –- 2 aircraft
  - INT_NSA, North State Aviation-Winston/Salem, NC ————-2 aircraft
  - SLO_Aeroman, El Salvador ——————————————-16 aircraft
  - STA_VT San Antonio Aerospace, San Antonio, TX ————- 7 aircraft
  - VQQ _Flightstar, Jacksonville, FL – ———————————–6 aircraft
Livery aircraft do not count in the outsourced man-hours (stations include: AMA, GUS, and ROW).
If you have questions regarding Contractual Scope Language, you can reach me at (918) 845-8059 or jpotter@twumail.org. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Tulsa Aviation Maintenance Group (AMG) Headcount

January 26, 2024		January 23, 2020		VARIANCE
TCC	68	TCC	79	TCC	-11
CC AMT	254	CC AMT	245	CC AMT	9
AMT	2185	AMT	2681	AMT	-496
OSM	408	OSM	425	OSM	-17
INSP	232	INSP	263	INSP	-31
CC CL	13	CC CL	16	CC CL	-3
CL	147	CL	130	CL	17
TOTAL	3307	TOTAL	3839	TOTAL	-532

Hiring

The company currently has external postings for AMT’s in Tulsa. Check daily at (jobs.aa.com).

Jay
(918) 845-8059
JPotter@twumail.org

TWU/IAM ASSOCIATION NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE BEGINS CONTRACT DISCUSSIONS IN PHOENIX

The members of your TWU/IAM Association Negotiating Committee met in Phoenix the week of January 15, 2024, to start the discussions on proposed changes to the current Joint Collective Bargaining Agreements.

The committee began discussing their positions on various Articles that need to be addressed in the upcoming negotiations with American Airlines. We discussed negotiation procedures and formatting that we will use as the Association, issues with the grievance process, and possible changes to the contract to expedite this process.

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MLK Parade Event 2024

The 2024 TWU MLK Celebration was planned to be a celebration of Dr. King’s contribution to the
union movement and constant fight for all workers to have dignity and respect on the job. Dr. King was
the ultimate champion for the under-served and the rights of all men and women no matter their race,
sex, or religious belief. When it comes to unions, we along with the rest of society benefited from his
ultimate sacrifice, his life.

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Passages

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

The Passing of Retired Brother Michiel Noel Bymun

It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of retired Brother Michiel Bynum on January 21, 2024. Mike had started working at American Airlines in 1973 and retired from the position of Crew Chief, Aviation Maintenance Technician in 2006. Please keep the Bynum family in your thoughts and prayers. Michiel Noel Bynum January 16, …