Local 514’s Digest for the week of July 5, 2024

President:

I hope everyone had a safe Independence day. It is so sad to hear of drowning accidents that take life’s. Sometimes you do not get a second chance to practice safety. Please look out for those who may need help. 

I’ve taken a few calls regarding DAT requests leading up to the holiday. If the request process is not working in your area please get with a Union Rep. in your area and they will work with an Executive Board officer assigned to your area to review the process.

24/7 
918-636-6089
Dale Danker

Vice President:

Union Steward meetings are Monday, July 8th

  • 7:15 am
  • 11:45 am
  • 3:45 pm

Marla Johnson

Chairman of Maintenance: 

This week, I’ve been working on shift betterment, grievances, and termination issues.

I hope you all had a Happy 4th of July. 

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

Chairman of Facilities Maintenance:

Happy Independence Day weekend 

It takes people to run an organization and currently your facilities group needs union representatives, the requirements for a first time steward are attendance 4 regular membership meetings within the previous year if you meet these requirements please consider volunteering to be a union steward.

We are also in need of shop safety representatives and shop chemical coordinators if you are interested in any of these positions, please reach out to me.

As always feel free to contact me at anytime.

  • Budgeted headcount 316
  • Headcount on payroll 320
  • Headcount on LOA  11
  • Actual headcount 309

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

Executive Board Members at Large:

George Albano:

Completed several shift improvements for shop 223.  Moved 5 generals to S/S off & moved several avionics off of Mids.

I will be attending C/C interviews for shop 225 on Thursday July 11th.

I hope everyone enjoyed the 4th of July holiday. 

George Albano
918-378-1947

GAlbano@twumail.org

Gene Chapin:

  • Working grievance office and walking the floor daily.
  • Worked on shift betterment shop 223.
  • Meeting with management this week agreed on two grievances to be paid.
  • Hope everyone had a safe July 4th.

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

Tracy Hardin:

Even though this has been a short week it has still been a very busy week. If you are a new employee here are a few things to remember:

  • 60 days to sign up for medical coverage.
  • Provide the TWU and AA with you updated contact information (AKA: phone, address, emergency).
  • Give your family our contact information.

I have had some grievances that could be worked out before they became a grievance. You can talk to your crew chief and supervisor to correct the problem if there is one.The sooner it is addressed, the sooner it is resolved.

Be safe and Drink Lots of Water if you are working in the heat, be it at the base or at home!

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

Daron Morgan:

  • Continue working the Grievance Office Daily
  • Continue working new and old grievances

Joe and I met with the CRO Leadership on Tuesday.  Currently, our largest group of grievances for that organization are machine quals.  After you meet all of the qualifications in Article 8 to be a machinist, they went multiple steps farther and put a qualification on almost all of the machines in that group, as well as qualifications on different job task.  There is a presidential grievance on qualifications, and we will continue to file grievances on quals until this issue is resolved.  

The Tulsa Drillers have home games on July 5th and 6th.  Tickets are available at the Union Hall

Saturday Jul 13, 2024 The Tulsa Oilers football team will be playing at home.  We have tickets available at the Hall and in the Grievance for that event

The next Union Rep Meetings will be held on Monday Jul 8, 2024.  The July Union Membership meeting will be held on Thursday Jul 24, 2024.  

I hope everyone had a safe and Happy 4th of July.   Our next Union Negotiated Holiday will be on Monday Sep 2, 2024 for Labor Day.

Daron
918-402-0089
DMorgan@twumail.org

Jay Potter:

Base Outsourcing Report, July 05, 2024

Four (4) In-house Base Maintenance Stations 

  • 20 Aircraft 
  • 10 of these aircraft are check aircraft (MBV, CC, C11, or EIS).
    • CTO – Charlotte, NC
      • A321 – 5
    • DWH – Dallas, TX
      • B737NG – 2
      • B787 – 1
    • PTO -Pittsburgh, PA
      • A321 – 2
    • TLE – Tulsa,  OK
      • B737NG – 10

Five (5) Outsourced Base Maintenance Stations

  • 21 aircraft.
  • 20 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
    • SLO_Aeroman, El Salvador – 11 Aircraft
      • A319 – 7
      • A320 – 2
      • A321 – 2
    • STA_VT San Antonio Aerospace, San Antonio, TX – 2 Aircraft
      • B737NG – 1
      • B787 – 1
    • 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

July 05, 2024 January 23, 2020 VARIANCE
TCC68 TCC79 TCC-11
CC AMT258 CC AMT245 CC AMT13
AMT2296 AMT2681 AMT-385
OSM421 OSM425 OSM-4
INSP246 INSP263 INSP-17
CC CL16 CC CL16 CC CL0
CL189 CL130 CL59
TOTAL3494 TOTAL3839 TOTAL-345

Hiring 

  • For available vacancies in Tech Ops, check jobs.aa.com.

Negotiations

  • Your M&R TWU/IAM negotiation team is scheduled to meet via Zoom on July 9th and 11th , 2024.

Have a great week,

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

American Airlines, 5 year Anniversaries

5 year anniversary

Christopher Adair —  Dept:257 – AMG

Michael BROWN —  Dept:401 – FMG

Keith Driver —  Dept:098C – AMG

Jason Duggan —  Dept:567 – AMG

David Gregory —  Dept:579M – AMG

Seth Gunnell —  Dept:098C – AMG

Steven Hudson —  Dept:567 – AMG

Austin Jensen —  Dept:226A – AMG

William Martin —  Dept:921 – FMG

Joseph Nguyen —  Dept:223 – AMG

Theodore Powell —  Dept:226 – AMG

Michael Randall —  Dept:591M – AMG

John Sisemore —  Dept:226 – AMG

Derrick Wright —  Dept:014Z – OMG

Mindy Barnes —  Dept:022S – MLG

Angela Dawson —  Dept:820S – MLG

Christy Driver —  Dept:031S – MLG

Tommy Fultz —  Dept:032S – MLG

Ben Hall —  Dept:021S – MLG

Lynn Harris —  Dept:032S – MLG

Christian Johnson —  Dept:021S – MLG

Amberly Morgan —  Dept:046S – MLG

William Ragan —  Dept:032S – MLG

Keynner Roig —  Dept:304T – MLG

Clinton Smith —  Dept:021S – MLG

Karen Westerby —  Dept:032S – MLG

15 year anniversary

Keeley Johnson —  Dept:206S – MLG

20 year anniversary

Jack Smith —  Dept:302O – AMG

25 year anniversary

Andre Roberts —  Dept:923 – FMG

Shannon Wood —  Dept:911 – FMG

30 year anniversary

Ronald Cummins —  Dept:259 – FMG

Michael Salamon —  Dept:180I – AMG

Thomas Dobson — Dept:489T – MCT

35 year anniversary

Dennis Beasley —  Dept:130I – AMG

James Blue —  Dept:457 – AMG

Michael Coffey —  Dept:824 – AMG

Shawn Cooper —  Dept:225 – AMG

Gregory Cunningham —  Dept:431 – AMG

Ethel Cunningham —  Dept:725 – AMG

Richard Guilfoyle —  Dept:257 – AMG

Doug Harrison —  Dept:725 – AMG

Gayle Jacobsen —  Dept:725 – AMG

Timothy Koscinski —  Dept:225 – AMG

Charles Layne —  Dept:257 – AMG

Loris Mandel —  Dept:257 – AMG

John Martin —  Dept:223 – AMG

Daniel McClain —  Dept:567 – AMG

Robert McGee —  Dept:343W – AMG

Derek Mills —  Dept:817 – AMG

Timothy Morrell —  Dept:607A – AMG

David Overton —  Dept:824 – AMG

Dennis Renaud —  Dept:226 – AMG

Douglas Ruicker —  Dept:257 – AMG

Michael Seitz —  Dept:449 – AMG

Christopher Sieland —  Dept:592W – AMG

Gina Teague —  Dept:147I – AMG

Gary Zetah —  Dept:725 – AMG

Dwight Morrow —  Dept:022S – MLG

40 year anniversary

Cris Hakanson —  Dept:130I – AMG

Charles Schwickerath —  Dept:607A – AMG

Passages

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