President Danker Summary Reports VIDEO

 

Summary Report:

  • Jan 18 – 21
    • Attended meeting in Miami Fl. with Gary Schaible and Rollie Reeves with John Samuelson and Garcia to discuss structural issues within the Air Division.
  • Jan 26th
    • Attended a Base Business Review  with Greg Emerson VP of Base maintenance.  400 lost days of production Meaning that AA slipped a day over 400 times in the calendar year of 2020
  • Jan 31
    • Met in Dallas at the air division office with  Gary Schaible and Rollie Reeve, Gary Peterson and Mike Mayes. This meeting was to discuss issues that arose from the Jan 18-21 meetings. We met for 6 hours, no breaks, no lunches, 6 hours of discussion on why the locals continue to lose their local autonomy, which is hindering our ability to represent our membership. The meeting was very contentious at times and things were said that we needed off our chest. In the end Mike Mayes made the statement that the locals will handle their grievances from start to finish, even if that means Arbitration.
  • February 10
    • Met with the Future Leader Organizer Committee (FLOC) Joe Brown, Scott Chisum, Norman Vaughan, Jacob Crosser, Lonnie Thomas, Clarence Jones, Rowdy Hoover, CJ Ward, Shannon Jones. It was encouraging to sit and visit with Younger/Newer members and hear their perspective on issues from the floor. I would like to encourage the newer members to reach out to these gentlemen for any questions or concerns that you may have. Contact Joe Brown and Scott Chisum.
  • Feb 15-16
    • Attended GRB at AA HDQ in Dallas with Local 514 VP Kendal Anderson, Chairwoman of MLS Linda Dill, Chairman of Facilities Maintenance Travis Scott and spoke on several cases of which we were able to achieve success on a few. The board will decide the disposition of those that the company denied.
    • Also during this trip I attended another Base Business Review (BBR) at DWH with Base Maintenance VP Greg Emerson, The red flag in the meeting again was just in the month of January, we had over 60 days of lost production. They were happy that overtime was under 5%, they had mentioned that they were still under head count for the amount of work scheduled. 
    • Paul Guentert gave a facilities report and mentioned that in Tulsa we are reviewing over 1300 PM’s and just over 300 had the review accomplished, I asked Paul for a report of those PM’s reviewed, that drive a safety related issues to our members.
    • While the MLS report was being given, Ed Sangrico stood up and asked some questions. He said we are highlighting slipped days of production by 24 hour increments and my guys are ordering parts from a warehouse that they can see and cannot get the parts in less than 24 hours, this is a problem. This issue has been going on for the 30+ years of my career and it is not the fault of our MLS’s, It is however an issue of the management of the  operation.
    • I had a One on One with Emerson after the meeting and continued to stress with him that asking for a DAT and getting it approved is still a big issue here in Tulsa.
  • Feb 21-25
    • Attended the International Executive council (IEC) meeting in Fort Lauderdale Fl,
      • I am one of the  International Vice Presidents elected every 4 years and I sit on the International Executive council. We review and approve the international financial reports, committee reports and officer’s reports.
    • At the end of the meetings, International President John Samuelsen opens the floor up to discussion, I asked John, can you report out any information about getting the TWU out of the Association to which he said there are things happening behind the scenes from the direction I was given from the floor at the International convention September 2020.
    • Also while I was in Fort Lauderdale we started having our AA president’s council meetings again,these had not taken place since before 2015 due to the lengthy negotiation with AA. Mike Mayes reassured the TWU local presidents that AA attorneys will understand and recognize that local presidents will have the right to take grievances to arbitration without the IAM. gary Peterson gave a report out on Officer changes within the IAM. Sito Pantoia and Tim Cleema are no longer in the Association, but remain working for the IAM in their educational Department. Dave Supplee was the President of IAM District Lodge 142, that handled all maintenance and related (not fleet service) it is my understanding from the information that the IAM has put out, Mr. Supplee has been charged with embezzling and therefore has been removed from office and is no longer associated with the IAM. IAM General Chair John Coveny has been selected as the replacement for the President of District Lodge 142.
    • Also discussed at the president council meetings were seniority protest, dues checkoff issues, upcoming meetings with AA on Outsourcing reports related to contractual SCOPE language Article 6. At this meeting I asked Gary Peterson where we are at with the resolution to the sick “Point system” that AA has moved us into. He said, “Dale, we are going forward to arbitration, we still yet need to settle on an arbitrator and a date for the hearing”.

Locally here in Tulsa issues facing all of us as members, problems getting DAT requests approved, the company continuing to trend away from Sat-Sun day off, Crew Chief Dodgeball picking after bid selection, musical chairs with the tool boxes. They scream and yell about lost production and all I really hear them say is that the beatings will continue until morale improves. They just don’t get it.

In Closing, We had a good membership meeting in February, My thanks to those members that showed up and I would like to encourage everyone to try and attend a membership meeting. For those who cannot, we post our information on TWU514.org website, Facebook, twitter and Youtube.

As always Myself and the Officers are available 24/7. 

I you need me, you can call me @ 918.636. 2089

Dale Danker

President TWU Local 514