Local 514’s Digest for the week of May 3, 2024

President:

This week, Jay Potter and I continued meeting with the Negotiation team. We are still discussing multiple articles in the MLS, MCT, M&R, and MTS contracts, and we will continue that work in the following weeks to complete them. Thank you to those members who took the time to submit proposed changes. Jay and I have them with us at every meeting. We review and discuss your proposals with the committee.

On Wednesday, May 1st, the Association sent American Airlines a notification letter requesting that negotiations start for all TWU/IAM Association-represented contracts. Please see my explanation video here.

I can be reached 24/7 at 918-636-6089.

Stay safe!

Dale Danker

Vice President:

The Union Steward meeting will be canceled on May 13th. We will have a joint meeting in May.

Joe and I were at headquarters this week for the GRB. We should have answers from the company in two weeks.

We currently have 1398 open grievances. 

Marla Johnson

Chairman of Maintenance: 

 Weekly grievances meetings and communications meetings with directors.

Safety

  • We are still in need of ERTs for the off shifts and weekends; if interested, please get in touch with Brent.anderson@aa.com 
  • Hangars 5/6 is looking for volunteers for the safety team; please get in touch with brian.drenthe@.com

Construction area detours and allowable walkways.  

  • Please follow all signs and detour signs.
  • Do not cross into restricted areas; this is for your safety.

Future Leaders Organizing Committee 

  • The FLOC Committee would like to welcome the new workers to AA and invite you to join us at our next committee meeting; if you are interested, please get in touch with me.
  • The next FLOC meeting will be May 9th

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

Chairman of Facilities Maintenance:

   This week negotiation talks are going on with our union, Mister Jay Sleeman is the spokesman for the facilities maintenance group (FMG) and he is aware of the current language we have and is addressing the issues we have with our scope.

   I have been working with our management and union on our grievances. Currently we have two that are going to this week’s GRB in DFW and those two represent several. 

   We are looking for volunteers to help with family day at Mohawk park, if you are interested in helping for a couple of days we could use you.

  • Budgeted headcount 316
  • Current Headcount 318
  • Headcount on LOA 6
  • Actual Headcount on base 312

As always feel free to contact me at any time.

Jim Holt
(918) 378-2079
JHolt@twumail.org

Executive Board Members at Large:

George Albano:

  • Continue working grievances.
  • Attended grievance meeting this week with Hgrs 1,2,& 3 management.
  • Assisted several members this week that received calls from Piedmont about their Union benefits. Please contact me if you have any questions.
  • May is Mental Health Awareness Month.  Kristin Mackey is available on base Mon-Thur.  She can be reached at 539-283-2464.

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

 Gene Chapin:

  • Continue working at the grievance office and walking the floor daily.
  • Working on grievances.
  • Grievance meeting with management this week.
  • Blood Drive starts Monday 5-6/24 please give if you’re able.

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

Tracy Hardin:

This week I had the opportunity to sit in on a Tech. Crew Chief panel for Avionics and  Structure. We had success in awarding the positions. Congratulations to the successful bidders.

Benefits:

Just a reminder that if you received company shares in the past and have not transferred them from your Computershare account, you still need to do so. Contact them at www.computershare.com/aal or 888-608-2588

Between 3am and 9pm Eastern Time.

Community Service:

The National Letter Carriers Stamp out Hunger food drive will be held on the second Saturday in May. On May 11th set your food donations by your mailbox and your letter carrier will do the rest. Any amount of donations will be combined with others to reduce food insecurity across the country.

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

Don McCormick:

HGR 5/6     

  • Looking at issues with the upcoming bid.   Working with Dale and Marla on this now
  • Another bid posted late yesterday.  Look to see if you will be affected by a shift change under 7 days’ notice from the posting. If your bid was changed from the previous postings, get with a Union Steward or a Manager and let them know you will want to stay in your current position for 7 days or waive the 7 day notice..  

Article 14 par. J  The regular starting and stopping time for all shifts and days off will be scheduled and posted at each station or facility and shall not be changed without seven (7) days notice to any employee affected by such change. Where there are Federal or State Daylight Saving laws, the hours may be changed to meet such laws.

  • We continue to do amazing work in producing AC with a 90% on time rate or better.

Grievances

  • Hgr 1/2/3.  Settled 23.  Withdrew 12.   Grievances from Aug 2020 – November 2020 on Known      Outages for CC.
  • Hgr 5/6  Settled 7   Withdrew 2  

Welfare and Entertainment 

  • Family Day June 1st, 2024.  10AM-7PM      Food will be provided from 11-1 and 4-6.  We will have Face Painters, Balloon Artists, Magic Shows, and more including admission to the Tulsa Zoo.   The Event committee has been working hard to put things in place at Mohawk Park and the Tulsa Zoo.  

You must register for the event to attend.  Follow the registration link below.  

Register

Volunteers to help with the event.  2-to-3-hour sessions    Ticket check in, handout bags, trash detail, cooking, serving food, drink station restock, shuttle service, inflatable check in, Tulsa Zoo check in, etc.  Contact an E-Board member if you’re interested.

  • Tulsa Oilers Football May 3th, Friday night..  Tickets will be available to be picked up at the Grievance office and the TWU Union Hall.
  • Tulsa Drillers Baseball have 3  games this weekend May 3rd – May 5th.  Tickets will be available to be picked up at the TWU Union Hall on Pine Street.

Don
(918) 378-5823
DMcCormick@twumail.org

Daron Morgan:

  • Continue working the Grievance office daily
  • Continue to work new and old grievances
  • Our next grievance meeting with the CRO leaders will be Tuesday May 7th
  • Sent multiple grievances to the GRB this week
  • The next Tulsa Oilers Football Game will be Friday May 3rd.  The Tulsa Oilers are giving away free Tulsa Oiler hats to the 1st 1000 fans.  We have tickets available in the grievance office and at the Union Hall
  • We have Tulsa Driller Tickets available at the Union Hall only
  • Our Welfare and Entertainment Committee is now meeting weekly with the TWU Events Committee as we are finalizing the plans for the 2024 TWU Family Day June 1st at Mohawk Park.  We are still looking for volunteers and vendors for this event.  If you are interested in helping out, please contact a committee member.  Registration for this event is available for a limited time on the TWU 514 website.  

Daron
918-402-0089
DMorgan@twumail.org

Jay Potter:

Base Outsourcing Report, May 03, 2024

Four (4) In-house Base Maintenance Stations 

  • 23 Aircraft 
  • 10 of these aircraft are check aircraft (MBV, CC, C11, or EIS).
    • CTO – Charlotte, NC
      • A319 – 3
      • A321 – 2
    • DWH – Dallas, TX
      • B737NG – 1
      • B787 – 1
    • PTO -Pittsburgh, PA
      • A319XF – 1
      • A321 – 3
    • TLE – Tulsa,  OK
      • A321 – 1
      • B737NG – 9
      • B777 – 1
      • B787 – 1

Five (5) Outsourced Base Maintenance Stations

  • 35 aircraft.
  • 30 of these aircraft are check aircraft (MBV, CC, C11, S, or EIS).
    • BFM_VT MAE, Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Mobile, AL – 3 Aircraft
      • A319 – 2
      • A320 – 1
    • INT_NSA, North State Aviation-Winston/Salem, NC – 2 Aircraft
      • A319 – 1
      • A321 – 1
    • SLO_Aeroman, El Salvador – 16 Aircraft
      • A319 – 9
      • A320 – 3
      • A321 – 3
      • B777 – 1
    • STA_VT San Antonio Aerospace, San Antonio, TX – 9 Aircraft
      • A321 – 4
      • B737NG – 1
      • B777 – 2
      • B787 – 2
    • VQQ _Flightstar, Jacksonville, FL – 5 Aircraft
      • B737NG – 5
  • Livery aircraft do not count toward 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

May 03, 2024 January 23, 2020 VARIANCE
TCC66 TCC79 TCC-13
CC AMT258 CC AMT245 CC AMT13
AMT2280 AMT2681 AMT-401
OSM407 OSM425 OSM-18
INSP238 INSP263 INSP-25
CC CL15 CC CL16 CC CL-1
CL181 CL130 CL51
TOTAL3445 TOTAL3839 TOTAL-394

Hiring

  • The company currently has external posting for Aviation Maintenance Technicians in Tulsa. 
  • Check daily at jobs.aa.com.

Negotiations

  • On Wednesday, the TWU-IAM Association served notice to American Airlines of our intent to commence negotiations on all TWU-IAM Association Collective Bargaining Agreements.
  • Your TWU/IAM M&R Negotiating Committee met in Phoenix, AZ this week. 
  • Next scheduled meeting will be via zoom on Monday May 06, 2024.

Have a great week,

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

American Airlines Anniversaries

5 year anniversary

Daniel Baker —  Dept:225 – AMG

Craig Birdwell —  Dept:257 – AMG

Elvin Bledsoe —  Dept:911 – FMG

Mary Bodine —  Dept:225 – AMG

Jennifer Brown —  Dept:208O – AMG

Sean Bryan —  Dept:257 – AMG

Garrett Chambers —  Dept:257 – AMG

Steven Dobrin —  Dept:257A – AMG

Casey Erdmann —  Dept:257 – AMG

Roman Fiorio —  Dept:223 – AMG

Jason Hartman —  Dept:413C – AMG

Dave Almario Lizama —  Dept:257 – AMG

Alan Pitts —  Dept:225 – AMG

Jaylen Puckett —  Dept:257 – AMG

Eric Reed —  Dept:257 – AMG

Dustin Sanders —  Dept:401 – FMG

Sybil Welch —  Dept:257 – AMG

Ashley West —  Dept:302O – AMG

Mickey Yang —  Dept:257 – AMG

Jonathan Yang —  Dept:098C – AMG

Cole Zachariae —  Dept:815O – AMG

Roger Wehrenberg —  Dept:206S – MLG

Kathleen Zukeran —  Dept:022S – MLG

15 year anniversary

Jeremy Long —  Dept:401 – FMG

Gary Teal —  Dept:025S – MLG

25 year anniversary

Geoffrey Brayden —  Dept:223 – AMG

Timothy Zehner —  Dept:046S – MLG

30 year anniversary

David Hancock —  Dept:725 – AMG

David Kissee —  Dept:225A – AMG

Raymond Luckinbill —  Dept:607A – AMG

Charles Lynn —  Dept:257 – AMG

35 year anniversary

Nathan Bailey —  Dept:725 – AMG

Paul Dahnke —  Dept:607A – AMG

Patrick Deggendorf —  Dept:725 – AMG

35 year anniversary (cont)

Kenneth Guess —  Dept:457 – AMG

Gerald Hayes —  Dept:824 – AMG

Forrest Hickling —  Dept:431 – AMG

Bruce Hoover —  Dept:725 – AMG

Gary Jones —  Dept:59 – AMG

Denny Larson —  Dept:567 – AMG

David Linko —  Dept:225 – AMG

Anthony McCutchan —  Dept:180I – AMG

Lee Morgans —  Dept:223 – AMG

Mark Nail —  Dept:223 – AMG

Richard Nichols —  Dept:567 – AMG

Michael Oshiro —  Dept:607A – AMG

Alan Pauley —  Dept:812M – AMG

Gregory Renkema —  Dept:256T – AMG

Brooks Sharp —  Dept:466I – AMG

Tim Ullrich —  Dept:567 – AMG

Allen Waltman —  Dept:561M – AMG

James Wickett —  Dept:607A – AMG

40 year anniversary

Thomas Burke —  Dept:180I – AMG

Bradley Chancellor —  Dept:223 – AMG

Jon Chapman —  Dept:180I – AMG

Donald Emeigh —  Dept:431 – AMG

Gere Goodenberger —  Dept:223 – AMG

Alton Hansen —  Dept:120I – AMG

Alan Jackson —  Dept:466I – AMG

James Lester —  Dept:120I – AMG

Dewey Lowery —  Dept:589W – AMG

Bobby Mahoney —  Dept:725O – AMG

Robert Martin —  Dept:580 – AMG

Daniel Queck —  Dept:824 – AMG

Michael Ross —  Dept:441 – AMG

Mark Sowell —  Dept:561M – AMG

Thomas Taggart —  Dept:223 – AMG

Chuyen Tran —  Dept:592W – AMG

Jimmy Vang —  Dept:302O – AMG

Mark Vawter —  Dept:225 – AMG

Phillip Young —  Dept:120I – AMG

Passages

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

The Passing of Retired Brother J Lin Moore Jr.

It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of retired Brother J Lin Moore Jr. on April 11, 2024. J Lin started his career in 1964 and worked here at American Airlines as a Fleet Service Clerk. J Lin retired in 2001. Please keep the Moore family in your thoughts and prayers. Visitation   …

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