AA Bargaining Update, July 29

Published 29 Jul, 2016

Sisters and Brothers,

The Mechanic & Related/Stores and Fleet Service Negotiating Committees met with American Airlines this week in Dallas.

Updates from both committees are below. Download M&R/Stores update   Download Fleet Service update

Mechanic & Related/Stores

We exchanged and discussed the following articles this week:

• Training – M&R, MLS, & MCT: We exchanged these proposals again this week and the company continues to refuse to recognize your seniority for selection purposes, which may impact your overtime and field trip opportunities. Your committee refuses to accept any proposal that could adversely impact you financially.
• Overtime – M&R & MLS: The company responded to your committee’s proposal on overtime but their response fell short of what is required to meet the needs of the membership. We have narrowed this down to a few issues, one of which is your right to refuse overtime.
• Vacation – M&R & MLS: We are still waiting on the company to respond to our proposal.
• Holidays – M&R, MLS, MTS & MCT: We have narrowed this issue down to how much we will be paid on a holiday.
• Limited Duty – M&R, MLS, MCT & MTS: Your committee passed this proposal to the company and is awaiting a response.

We remain united, committed and resolute in negotiating the JCBAs we deserve. We appreciate your continued solidarity—support and patience are imperative in helping us obtain this goal. We will reconvene in Dallas next week.

Current TAs:

Upcoming negotiating sessions:

Fraternally,

Fleet Service Update

Despite our willingness to move this process along, the company continues to bypass your committee and attempt to negotiate directly with you, the membership, through town hall meetings. During these meetings, the company promises large pay increases, but fails to tell you that in other very important areas of our contract, they are presenting concessionary proposals that include the lesser language of the two pre-merger contracts.

At his “State of the Airline” speech, CEO Doug Parker said, “The company is not happy that negotiations have gone on this long.” But if that’s the case, why then do his negotiators continue to propose concessions, knowing full well that we will reject those proposals, and prolong negotiations even more? This is nothing less than a standard management stalling technique.

We know you are eager for bargaining to finish. So are we, but these proposals simply do not meet your survey responses or expectations.

This week we passed our overtime proposal and we received back counter proposals on vacations and temporary assignments. There are several articles to which we are awaiting the company’s response, including holidays, sick time and recognition and rights.

The following are the TAs reached to date:

We have negotiations scheduled for the next two weeks in Dallas.

Fraternally,