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ATD Today March 2, 2012

American Air Pension Battle May Spread American Airlines wants to terminate the pensions of 130,000 workers as part of its bankruptcy proceeding. The move would be good for the company’s balance sheet, but would it be good for America? American’s pension termination would be the largest in U.S. history. The airline wants to end the…

TWU, Local 514 Veterans Committee & Tulsa 66ers Bingo Night

All TWU Veterans are invited to the TWU/Tulsa 66er’s Bingo Night Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm TWU, Local 514 Union Hall 11945 East Pine Street, Tulsa, OK Bingo prizes will be provided by Tulsa 66ers. This is a TWU, Local 514 Veterans Committee project for Veterans. In order to attend, you…

Vets Fight for Jobs They Left Behind

  Michael Schutz came back to Truman, Minn., after being deployed to Kuwait with the Navy and expected to strap on his gun belt, refasten his badge and slide back into the police cruiser for the city, where he had worked full time as a cop before he left to serve his country.  Instead he…

AMR – Court Update 3/1/2012

The Bankruptcy Court approved the debtors’ applications to retain and employ Skyworks Capital, LLC as an aircraft restructuring advisor, McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Company, Inc. Japan as a management consultant and Boston Consulting Group, Inc as a strategic consultant including to review and streamline the debtors’ management structure. As to Boston Consulting Group, Inc., the…

Informational Picket, Tulsa International, 2-29-2012

UStream video: Click Here The Informational picket starts @ 11:00 and will run for 3 hours! Arrival, @ Tulsa International Airport.. Hello Brothers and Sisters, There will be an informational picket at the Tulsa International Airport, on Wednesday, the 29th of February. We need your participation. It will run from 11:00 AM till 2:00pm. This…

Good faith Bargaining?

This is the APFA Update for Feb. 28th… American Airlines continues to make its commitment to busting organized labor on its property crystal clear. Yesterday, the airline’s parent company revealed in its Statement of Financial Affairs an expenditure of nearly $400,000 to a firm that specializes in union busting. American Labor Relations Services, which according…