President:
They want Maximum and give you Minimum.
As always, look out for management, they are not our friends.
They want maximum effort from you while they give you minimum respect, minimum input on how to flow an airplane, minimum vacation/dat ratios and minimum headcount at the bases. They do this while violating the contract everywhere they can. Crew chiefs being in locations with multiple other crew chiefs and making dodge-ball situations for picking crews, violating “OT” and field trip opportunities for you by installing a qualification list that requires your signature, a signature they will use to discipline you if you don’t perform to their expectations. Expectations from supervisors that do not know a damn thing about aviation.
In Craig Sully’s shops he has his supervisors telling employees that if they sign up for 8 hours OT he will cancel it. He wants people to sign up for only 4 early or 4 late so he doesn’t have to pay people double time. From a Union President perspective that’s threatening bullcrap and I recommend you all stick together and only sign up for 8 hours. If he wants to deny you your contractual right to that OT proffer then I say let the work pile up till it hurts him. The company will threaten you by saying we will just send it out. They have us at minimum headcount anyway. Stand together and start calling their bluffs on this bullcrap that is hurting you. Stand together and their decisions will only hurt them.
So when the Company tells you in meetings or out on the floor to step it up, tell them ” I’m doing the maximum I can Boss, are you”. I’m sure a standard lie will then float out of their mouth.
Do they really want maximum effort?
It sure seems like they are making poor decisions to make you think about giving them minimum effort.
In short, never trust management and file a grievance on every violation.
Dale Danker
President TWU Local 514
I can be reached 24/7
918-636-6089
Vice President:
The February 13, 2023 Union Rep/Steward meeting is canceled. We had a training session on February 7, 2023.
Watch your breaks and lunches, management will be on the floor monitoring. Also, do not rest your eyes! They will be out taking pictures and say you are sleeping. There will be no warnings, they are told to walk you out!
I will be out of the office until February 21st.
If you need anything please contact another officer.
Recording Secretary:
Retirement Seminar Coming Soon !!
Retirement Seminar is being planned for March 22,2023 ,Town Hall upper level Hangar 3/4, times are to be determined. Representatives from Pension and Survivor Support ,Benefits ,Fidelity, Mark Loeber. Members with pension and 401k it’s always recommended to attend , it’s never too early to start planning for retirement .
Membership Meeting notices for February are posted, Please Note Meetings have been moved to Thursday February 23rd. Nomination for the Election Committee will be accepted.
Chairman of Maintenance:
Hello everyone,
Jay Potter, Tracy Hardin and I attended the Aero-Engines MRO this week in Dallas TX. We have had the opportunity to gather a lot of good information along with a few people inquiring about being able to bring work to the Tulsa engine world.
Just a reminder the Future Leader Organizer Committee (FLOC) committee will be hosting the International FLOC committee meeting the week of March 6th, if you are a current Tulsa FLOC member you are welcome to attend just let me know so I can RSVP your info.
ED MEETING
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- We were told that the company would be hiring more cleaners (going to overhire because of all the upgrading)
- FACILITIES; our facility group will start upgrading our COMMON areas
- Keeping hangar 80 for now
- AA is currently taking applications online (AAcareers.com) for the cleaner position
Continued work around the base:
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- Working FWRs
- Injury investigations
- Working Accident Investigations
- Fire Alarms
Hangar 5 & 6 Specifics:
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- Dock Modifications
- 777 Docking
- Hangar 6 will pause working the 787 in the summer months and start two 737 lines ( sometime around next crew change)
- The new Safety Meetings in hangar 5/6 are going well, if you would like to be involved contact Brian Drenthe at brian.drenthe@aa.com
- Drop-in-line preparation hangars 5/6
Hangar 1, 2 & 3 Specifics:
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- The new director ( John Hollahan ) is scheduled to start on 1/30/2023
AAERO
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- The new chemical pump in the Bearing shop is waiting on a Stainless Steel pipe for the drum
- AA will be upgrading the test cell, this will take 3 weeks and means that the run of 7 engines will have to be outsourced.
- High-speed grind machines will be upgraded; it could take up to 6 weeks to finish.
Plating shop
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- Several items in the plating shop have become a large safety concern these past few weeks
Chairman of Material Logistics Specialist:
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- We have 104 open grievances. I wasn’t able to have a grievance meeting with the managers this week.
- Interviews were held this week at Tulsa Tech in Owasso. Offers will be made in the coming weeks for people being considered for hiring.
- I will be out till February 13th. If you need anything please contact a Union Rep or another officer.
PULLOVERS will be handed out February 16th from 6 am to 11 am & 1pm to 4 pm. At the Union Hall
B.J. Rackers 918-346-8918
Executive Board Members at Large:
In 1859 the railroads began to expand their service across the United states. A Chicago businessman named George Pullman convinced them to convert two old passenger cars into luxurious sleeping cars. In 1867 the first pullman porter began working aboard the sleeping cars and the service became a huge hit for travelers. George began to recruit Black men to lug baggage, shine shoes, set up and clean berths, and service passengers. Their schedule often required them to work 400 hours a month with little time off. After many failed attempts to join the American Railway Union the pullman porters formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 with the help of A. Phillip Randolph. Mr. Randolph was a social activist and publisher of the political literary magazine The Messenger. Randolph and the Brotherhood had to work for more than 10 years to secure their first contract.
Randolph would go on to play key roles in the civil rights movement.
Please read more about A. Phillip Randolph and his contribution to labor movement at:https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/asa-philip-randolph
In Solidarity,
Michael J Quill Scholarship applications are available at the Union Hall M-F 7AM-11AM and 12PM-4PM. They are also available on our website and are due in by May 1, 2023 No exceptions.
TWU FAMILY DAY will be April 16th from 9AM to 7PM at the Tulsa Gathering Place and from 11:30AM to 5PM at Discovery Lab. This will be a pre-register event and details and links will be posted on the TWU website and Union Bulletin Boards as soon as the Legal teams and Marketing from both locations approve our postings.
TULSA OILERS HOCKEY have 10 home games left. 4 in February, Feb 14, 24, 25, and 26th. 3 dates in March and 3 more in April. Tickets available at the Union Hall M-F 7AM-11AM and 12PM-4PM.
TULSA OILERS INDOOR FOOTBALL will have 8 home games starting April 15th. We will update everyone when tickets are available sometime in March.
TULSA DRILLERS BASEBALL will start their season on April 6th for the start of 69 home games. We will update everyone when tickets are available sometime in March.
HGR 5/6 Management has informed us that we will be transitioning into the 737 maintenance in order to help out with the current Yield situation. 2 new lines of 737 Maintenance will be in Hgr 5C, and D starting sometime early summer after the 787 line has completed their scheduled checks.
We had a great training session with our Union Reps and look forward to having them excel in helping out our membership. We will be posting the Union Rep roster in each area soon and as always can be found on our TWU514.org website.
We continue to work grievances and attend meetings with the company on local safety and communication items.
FEBRUARY 2023 MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS ARE ON THURSDAY
This is a request from a Brother. We are trying Thursdays for the month of February and March to see how that works for us here.
Blood Drive
All donors will receive a short sleeved pocket t-shirt and TWU #514 will be serving chili or hot dog to all donors!
All American Airlines Employees are welcome to donate!
For Transportation, call EXT.# 4013
Please bring your donor card or ID
Profit Sharing Letter – May 19th 2022
- The 2022 profit sharing year will be defined as the 12-month period beginning on April 1, 2022 and ending on March 31, 2023. Profit sharing award payments for the 2022 profit sharing year shall be made by June 30, 2023.
Grievance Tracking
The Local 514 Data Operations unit heard during the Union Representative training on February 7th, 2023, that a small piece of the grievance application wasn’t working as intended, and after learning of this, the seasoned programmer that has been a member of Local 514 for the past 9980 days (as of the date of this posting), Michael Salamon, swung into action and fixed the piece that was broken.
Also during that same meeting another member had a suggestion to improve the grievance application with a notification service at a certain step, and I am happy to report that it has been implemented.
If you have any problems or suggestions for the grievance tracking application, please let us know, because if we don’t know something isn’t working it’s hard for us to fix it.
Thanks,
Allan Ball
Michael Salamon
Local 514 Data Operations.
Passages
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