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30,000 TWU-IAM Association Members Open Negotiations With American Airlines
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 03 Dec, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2015 TWU Contact: Ori Korin or (202) 374-6103 IAM Contact: James Carlson 30,000 TWU-IAM Association Members Open Negotiations With American Airlines Amid unprecedented company and industry profitability, the TWU-IAM Association today announced that it commenced the largest ever joint contract negotiations with American Airlines for approximately 30,000 ground workers…Read More…
Association Presents Positions/Proposals to American
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 04 Dec, 2015 The TWU-IAM Association yesterday presented American Airlines with a comprehensive package of positions/proposals that will serve as the foundation to achieve joint collective bargaining agreements for 30,000 ground workers at the largest, most profitable airline. Sito Pantoja and Harry Lombardo, Chair and Vice Chair of the Association, attended the opening of…Read More…
Negotiation Schedule Set
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 09 Dec, 2015 During the opening meeting for contract negotiations with American Airlines in Dallas, TX on December 3, Association negotiators and company representatives formed a subcommittee tasked with developing an initial negotiating schedule. That subcommittee has met and scheduled negotiating sessions between our Association negotiating committees and American Airlines for the weeks of…Read More…
Suspended Local 555 Members Need Our Help
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 16 Dec, 2015 Brothers and Sisters: As we write this message, over 100 of our members from Local 555 have been suspended for attending regional union meetings in Southern California and Orlando, Florida last month. Local 555 leadership organized the meetings to discuss options with their membership after stalled negotiations with Southwest Airlines, a…Read More…
Alaska Airlines Dispatchers Overwhelmingly Approve Labor Agreement
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 29 Dec, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 2015 CONTACT: Oriana Korin, (202) 719-3834 Alaska Airlines Dispatchers Overwhelmingly Approve Labor Agreement The Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO has reached an agreement on a new four-year contract covering the 44 dispatchers employed at Alaska Airlines. Dispatchers overwhelmingly approved the contract last week, 41–3. “Through mutual…Read More…
Ground Workers to Vote on Tentative Agreement with Southwest Airlines
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 30 Dec, 2015 For Immediate Release – December 29, 2015 Download the release Contact: Patti Adams, (501) 519-2743 or Roger Kerson, (734) 645-0535 Ground Workers to Vote on Tentative Agreement with Southwest Airlines TWU Local 555 Members Will Have Final Say on Proposed Agreement after More than Four Years of Negotiations DALLAS – TWU…Read More…
Suspended Local 555 Members Return to Work
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 04 Jan, 2016 On Monday, January 4, the 105 suspended TWU Local 555 members at Southwest Airlines returned to work. The company initially threatened to suspend the employees from 45 to 90 days—without pay—during the holiday season. While we are relieved the employees are back on the job working hard for the traveling public, all grievances…Read More…
Remembering the Bravery of Mike Quill and TWU Local 100
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 05 Jan, 2016 1966 Strike a Seminal Moment in TWU History Fifty years ago this month, New York City transit workers, led by TWU founding president Michael Quill, voted unanimously to strike, setting the stage for how TWU is recognized today: a fighting, militant union that stands up for justice for all working people,…Read More…
Now Accepting Applications for the 2016 Michael J. Quill Scholarship!
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 13 Jan, 2016 TWU is now accepting applications for the Michael J. Quill Scholarship Fund. This scholarship will offer 15 college-bound dependents of TWU members with a scholarship worth $4,800. This scholarship will be paid out per year in the amount of $1,200 to winners who continue to be eligible over their four-year course of…Read More…
Association Continues Negotiations This Week
Posted OnOctober 31, 2016 byPublished 15 Jan, 2016 Sisters and Brothers, Your TWU-IAM Association Fleet Service and Mechanic & Related Negotiating Committees met with American Airlines this week in Miami to continue joint contract negotiations. Below is each Committee’s update of this week’s discussions. Each Committee was able to reach preliminary, tentative agreements pertaining to some of the articles…Read More…