Fleet Service Negotiations Update

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Fleet Service Negotiations Update

August 26, 2016

Sisters and brothers,

The Association Fleet Service Negotiating Committee met with American Airlines this week in New York to continue joint contract negotiations.

First, we welcomed our new Fleet Service Association Negotiating Committee member, Tim Murphy, from TWU Local 512 located in Chicago. Tim was brought on to the team to replace Mike Mayes, who was promoted to TWU interim Air Division Director.

We began this week’s negotiations by reviewing the company’s counter proposal for vacations. While their proposal did address some of our concerns, it did not meet our expectations. After a lengthy discussion, we drafted our counter proposal and passed it back to the company.

Later in the week, both parties discussed overtime and we answered some questions the company had related to this important article. We await their counter proposal. We also received the company’s counter proposal on temporary assignments. The committee is currently evaluating it and will draft a counter proposal during our next negotiations session.

The following are our upcoming negotiations sessions:

• Week of August 29th – Washington, DC
• Week of September 19th – Washington, DC
• Week of September 26th – Dallas/Fort Worth

Fraternally,

Mark Baskett, Mike Fairbanks, Pete Hogan,

Tim Hughes, Steve Miller, Brian Oyer,

Pat Rezler, Art Risley, Andre Sutton,

Rodney Walker, Bill Wilson, Tim Murphy

Association, American LOA’s and Transitiion Agreements Now Available to View

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Association, American LOA’s and Transition Agreements Now Available to View

August 10, 2016

As previously communicated last Friday, the TWU-IAM Association and American Airlines reached an interim wage agreement to provide Association members wage and pension increases and job security enhancements while we continue negotiating joint collective bargaining agreements.

Below are links to each Letter of Agreement (LOA) for every Association class and craft and the transition LOAs for each of the previously unrepresented (accreted) groups.

As part of the plan to communicate these significant enhancements, Association representatives will be available to meet with members—as always—to answer any questions you may have.

Interim Wages LOAs:

Mechanic and Related Employees (including Planners, Maintenance Control Technicians, Stores/Material Logistics Specialists, Quality Assurance, Technical Document Specialists and Maintenance Training Specialists)

Fleet Service Clerk Employees ( including Tower Planners and Weight and Balance Planners)

Transition LOAs for previously unrepresented/accreted groups:

Quality Assurance Auditors/Quality Assurance Consultants Transition Agreement

Maintenance Planners and Technical Documentation Specialists Transition Agreement

Tower Planners Transition Agreement

Maintenance Training Instructors and Maintenance Training Specialists Transition Agreement

Weight and Balance Planners and Central Load Planners Transition Agreement

Fleet Service and Mechanic and Related/Stores Negotiations Update

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Fleet Service and Mechanic and Related/Stores Negotiations Update

August 05, 2016

Sisters and Brothers,

The TWU-IAM Association today announced we have reached an interim agreement with American Airlines to provide all members industry-leading wage rates, a lump sum payment and retirement improvements. Your committee will continue joint contract negotiations with American to resolve all outstanding issues, including bargaining additional wage and retirement improvements.

Association members will receive the industry-best wages we deserve effective November 2016 and not have to wait as we continue to bargain the other parts of our joint contracts. A lump sum payment will be made to members to bridge the gap until the November 2016 effective date. The process of bargaining joint contracts after a mega airline merger like American and US Airways is complex and, as you very well know, time consuming.

The interim wage adjustment agreement provides average wage hikes of approximately 22 percent. Mechanic and Related workers will elevate three percent above similarly classified workers at Delta Air Lines and Fleet Service, Stores/Material Logistic Specialists and Maintenance Training Specialists’ wages will increase one percent ahead of their counterparts at United Airlines. . The agreement also calls for enhancements to defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans. And, while not required under this agreement, the Company’s presentation to the Association included the possibility of insourcing some maintenance work that had previously been outsourced. These are important gains for our Association.

We’d like to thank Association Chair and Vice Chair Sito Pantoja and Harry Lombardo for listening to the entire Association membership, and taking our voice to American’s executive leadership to make this happen. We would also like to thank the membership for its support and solidarity, and for making your voices heard loud and clear and American Airlines for being a willing partner. We look forward to continuing these joint contract negotiations to achieve improvements in all areas of our contracts, including pressing for additional gains in wages and retirement security.

Both the Fleet Service and the Mechanic and Related/Stores Negotiating Committees unanimously voted in favor of the interim improvements.

The full text of the interim wage adjustment will be posted as soon as possible.

Fraternally,

Fleet Service Committee:

Mark Baskett, Mike Fairbanks, Pete Hogan,

Tim Hughes, Mike Mayes, Steve Miller,

Brian Oyer, Pat Rezler, Art Risley,

Andre Sutton, Rodney Walker, Bill Wilson

Mechanic and Related Committee:

Jason Best, Mike Bush, Ken Coley, John Coveny,

Dale Danker, Mark Huffman, Bennie Martino, Gary Peterson,

Larry Pike, Sean Ryan, Jay Sleeman, Mark Strength 

Fleet Service Negotiations Update

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Fleet Service Negotiations Update

July 29, 2016

Sisters and Brothers,

The Association Fleet Service Negotiating Committee met with American Airlines this week in Dallas/Fort Worth to continue joint contract negotiations.

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 is 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, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said, “The company is not happy that negotiations have gone on this long.” But if that’s the case, then 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 the negotiations scheduled for the next two weeks in Dallas.

Fraternally,

Mark Baskett, Mike Fairbanks, Pete Hogan,

Tim Hughes, Mike Mayes, Steve Miller,

Brian Oyer, Pat Rezler, Art Risley,

Andre Sutton, Rodney Walker, Bill Wilson

Fleet Service Negotiations Update

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Fleet Service Negotiations Update

June 30, 2016

Sisters and Brothers,

The Association Fleet Negotiating Committee met with American Airlines this week in Dallas/Fort Worth to continue joint contract negotiations.

During this week’s talks, we made progress on issues which have previously bogged us down. A TA was reached on Work Schedules and significant progress has been made on Overtime. To date, we have not received a response from the company to our counter-proposal on Holidays. That TA’s are not coming out every week is not reflective of the hard work of the committee. We remain committed to be expeditious but take the time necessary to achieve the best contract language possible.

Regarding seniority list integration, earlier this week Joshua Javits issued a letter introducing himself to Association members and outlined his role in the seniority integration process. It is important to note that having an integrated seniority list is not necessary for a joint agreement to be reached and ratified prior to the posting of that final list.

During the negotiations process, we have reached the following TA’s:

We understand your frustrations and we want a contract as fast and as much as you do. However, we also must preserve our work rules and other contractual provisions that make our work lives better. We must stand together as we work through this process!

Fraternally,

Mark Baskett, Mike Fairbanks, Pete Hogan,

Tim Hughes, Mike Mayes, Steve Miller,

Brian Oyer, Pat Rezler, Art Risley,

Andre Sutton, Rodney Walker, Bill Wilson