Leap Year Rally

TWU Local 514 members, retiree’s, and others from the community participated as part of a nation wide picket at the Tulsa International Airport, Wednesday, February 29th. Several thousands of our members and supporters around the system conducted similar pickets. The purpose of this Rally was two fold: First and foremost was to raise awareness of…

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Bankruptcy Update, March 2, 2012

TWU Negotiating Committee Update All title groups continued with the bankruptcy negotiations throughout this week. The goal is clear…mitigate the company’s TWU “ask” of over $390 million, including about 9,000 layoffs. Your Negotiating Team leaders analyze the documents, data and business plans. The various experts retained by TWU, assist them as we bargain at a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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