Published 15 Mar, 2012 Today, many of the TWU negotiators broke into sub groups to work on their specific issues. There were multiple meetings that went back and forth with the company regarding costing out calculations, as well as discussing specific concessionary items. Our TWU Benefits sub-committee continued to question the company about its active…
Published 16 Mar, 2012 There were no scheduled negotiations between the TWU and AMR today. But, in a letter to the NMB late this afternoon, AMR rejected TWUs proffer of binding arbitration. In the letter, Senior VP Jeff Brundage made it clear that AMR would continue to seek consensual agreements with all of its labor…
Published 04 Jan, 2012 The Transportation Learning Center (TLC) recently issued its updates for transit frontline training from Cost-Shared Consortium Development of Transit Training,Linking School-Based and Work-Based Learning for Good Careers, Future Direction of the Center: Strategic Planning and Reauthorization of SAFETEA-LU as well as comments from team leaders about the importance and results of…
Published 05 Jan, 2012 Last year, 2011 will be known as the year people stood up to anti-union legislation and governors, corporate greed and forming solidarity across the nation against the attacks on workers’ rights. Here are the 11 most promising events from 2011. 1. Occupy Wall Street Inspires the 99 Percent to Fight Back…