Passages

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

Officers Elections

Nominations will be accepted from the floor on May 24th,  2010 at  the combined Shop Steward/Membership meetings.  Meeting times are  as follows; 7:15am, 11:45am, 3:45pm and 11:30pm. Candidates running for office will have until 4:00pm on May 28th, 2010 to decline nomination or make any corrections to their name on the ballot.

International Staff Changes Effective June 7,2010

May 19,2010 To: TWU Local Presidents TWU Directors TWU International Staff OPEIU-153 Staff As we continue to refine Officers and Staff assignments to better adapt to the current and future demands placed on the organization, the following changes have become necessary:

Letter to members from Steve Luis, May 17, 2010

It has been almost three years since I came into office and back then I immediately joined the negotiating committee for the TWU. In May of 2008 AA management handed our negotiating committee a contract proposal that was so clearly objectionable we refused to bring it back to the membership for a vote. We did…

What is left to be done?

As today starts again I see that we have the huge task ahead of us in getting all the language together for each article that we just TA’d.

Greater Fairness Comes to Airline and Rail Union Elections

WASHINGTON, DC – Transportation unions applaud the announcement today by the National Mediation Board (NMB) that it has amended union election procedures in the airline and rail industry to make them fairer and more consistent with democratic norms. “In too many instances, airline and rail workers were denied the ability to bargain collectively because of…