Brothers and Sisters,
The Executive Negotiating Committee met face to face with American Airlines this week in Washington, D.C. This session focused on Maintenance Control Technicians (MCT) and Maintenance Training Specialists (MTS) along with other Mechanic & Related and Stores language. Substantial progress was made in several non-economic articles. The constructive dialog and productive environment carried over from last week, enabling the parties to significantly narrow their positions on outstanding issues in numerous articles for these groups.
Complete Tentative Agreements were reached on:
Qualifications – MCT
Filling of Vacancies – MCT
Recall – MCT
Hours of Service – MTS
Filling of Vacancies – MTS
Seniority – MTS
Filling of Vacancies – MLS
Qualifications – MLS
The future negotiating calendar is as follows:
December 11- DFW
January 8- DCA
January 22- DCA
February 12- DCA
February 19- DCA
Fraternally,
Fleet Negotiating Committee:
Mark Baskett, William Fa, Mike Fairbanks, Tim Hughes, Steve Miller, Tim Murphy, Pat Rezler, Art Risley, Andre Sutton, Rodney Walker, Bill Wilson
Mechanic and Related/Stores Committee:
Jason Best, Mike Bush, Ken Coley, John Coveny, Dale Danker, Mark Huffman, Bennie Martino, Gary Peterson, Rollie Reaves, Sean Ryan, Jay Sleeman, Mark Strength