Local 514 Digest for the Week of Feb.28-2020

Membership Meeting:

The postponed February membership meeting will be held on Monday, March 2, 2020. They will be held at the Union Hall , 11929 East Pine Street @ 7:45 am, 11:45 am and 3:45 pm.

Reminder! We will be voting on the next Election Board.

Election Board Nominees:

(in order of nomination)

• •         Kennard Fuselier, 303333
  •         Glen Morgan, 509155
  •         Nate Hopkins, 591154
  •         Donald Johnson, 303298
  •         Patrick Thornton, 180412
  •         Brenda Dean, 180122
  •         Erma Wallace, 612548
  •         Patric McCully, 054540

It was postponed due to the Executive Board being in Texas going over the final language of the current tentative agreement. 

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Tentative Agreement:

The Local 514 Executive Board spent Monday – Wednesday this week in DFW going over the Agreement in Principle language with the negotiating committee. When the language is available we will post it on our site. Please take time to read it and understand it in its entirety.

Next week, the negotiating committee will be in DFW Tuesday – Friday. As more information becomes available we will get it posted.

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Coronavirus Update:

The TWU continues to closely monitor the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The disease originated in Wuhan, China, and has since reached 37 international locations, including cases in the United States. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that person-to-person spread will continue to occur and new cases will most likely be identified over the coming days and weeks.

For more information and updates about the coronavirus, visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html or https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus.

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New Hangar 7 Announcement

“American makes largest ever investment in a maintenance base”

American Airlines is making a $550 million investment in its Tech Ops maintenance complex in Tulsa, Okla. – the largest investment the company has ever made in a maintenance facility.

The investment comes in the form of a new widebody capable aircraft hangar that will replace two existing buildings and a base support building that will have offices for the overhaul and engineering teams. Other improvements to the Tulsa facility will be part of the investment.

The project is also the largest capital investment in Tulsa’s history, said Mayor G.T. Bynum at a Friday morning event in Oklahoma.

SOURCE

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Benefits:

Time is running out on converting TWU Voluntary Benefits over from payroll deduction to direct deposit. Members, please look at a December 2019 pay statement if there is a line in after-tax labeled TWU VOL Benefits, that line has been eliminated effective January 1, 2020.  Members must convert over to direct deposit by visiting the grievance office or calling Terry Buck 9186382652.

 

New Hire Long Term Disability (LTD) Enrollment

All new hires in the calendar year 2019 have an opportunity to sign up for Long Term Disability (LTD) with a guarantee issued. LTD is a disability policy that if a member becomes totally disabled it will pay 50% of wages until your normal Social Security Retirement Age. Enrollment Packets were mailed out the first week of February, this is a negative enrollment. If you do nothing you will be automatically enrolled, if you wish to decline coverage, you must return the enrollment form and mark decline coverage check box.

Terry Buck
Recording Secretary
Benefits Committee Chair

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2020 Quill Scholarship:

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Michael J. Quill Scholarship Fund.  This scholarship will offer fifteen (15) college-bound dependents of TWU members with a scholarship worth $4800.00.  This scholarship will be paid out, per year in the amount of $1200.00 to winners who continue to be eligible over their four (4) year course.

The deadline for all applications will be April 24, 2020; no applications postmarked after this date will be accepted.  No applications will be accepted by fax or email – there will be no exceptions.

Winners of the scholarships will be determined by a public drawing, to be held in May. Winners will be notified by mail 5 – 7 days thereafter.

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T-Shirts

The t-shirts should be in by the end of March. Unfortunately, we had issues getting all the sizes but they are being printed and will be shipped soon. I will put out a notification once we receive them.

Thank you for your patience.

Marla Johnson 

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Passages

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