A Situation Unparalleled in Our Lifetime

IAMAW Transportation Territory /// March 16, 2020 Dear Sisters and Brothers, The change enveloping our industry is unprecedented. Each day brings us new revelations about where COVID-19 is spreading and how it is being transmitted. We wake up each day and learn about...

District 141 PDGC Mike Klemm Responds to United Statement Re: COVID-19

Dear United Member, I’m sure by now most of you have had a chance to read the communication put out by Oscar Munoz and Scott Kirby last night. I want to start off by commending both men and their teams for keeping the IAM completely informed with the dire financial...

CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 Be Vigilant. Be Prepared. Don’t Panic.

AFL-CIO//////////// Read Original Version The COVID-19 outbreak is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It has spread rapidly around the globe and now throughout the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the outbreak as a pandemic....

GVP Pantoja Addresses Members Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

IAMAW Transportation /////// Dear Sisters and Brothers, As the COVID-19 virus outbreak evolves and expands in the U.S. and across the globe, our industry has been especially vulnerable. It is our business to transport passengers and goods around the world....

IAM Temporarily Suspends Winpisinger Center Programming

GOIAM.ORG //////// View Original Story Based on guidance concerning social distancing to slow and limit the rate of infection of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, the IAM is temporarily suspending programming at the Winpisinger Education and Technology Center for two...

Coronavirus: British Airways boss tells staff jobs will go (BBC News)

BBC NEWS//////////// View Original Story British Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus. In a memo to staff titled "The Survival of British Airways", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be "short term,...

Delta is cutting more flights now than it did after 9/11 (THE VERGE)

THE VERGE ///////////// Delta Air Lines is reducing its flight capacity by 40 percent due to a coronavirus-related dropoff in demand, marking the biggest reduction in operations in the airline’s history. That includes the months after the September 11th terrorist...

IP Martinez Message to IAMAW Members on COVID-19 Outbreak

GOIAM.COM ///////////// Dear Sisters and Brothers, I know there is much uncertainty surrounding the evolving COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak that has now been classified as a global pandemic. Our daily routines are being affected by the cancellation of many events in...

Tentative Agreements at AA Released

March 11, 2020 Association Concludes JCBA Review TWU-IAM Association representatives have concluded reviewing the final JCBA documents and have authorized the company to print and mail full-text contracts to all members. Each member will receive the contract...

It’s in Your Hands Now

TWU-IAM Members Urged to Vote on Tentative Agreements with American Airlines. Committee members and leadership from IAM Districts 141 and 142 met in Chicago this week to review the Tentative Agreements reached by the TWU-IAM Association for over 30,000 members at...

Association Concludes JCBA Review

This week, TWU-IAM Association representatives continued the process of reviewing tentatively agreed to Joint Contract language. Late Friday evening, the Executive Committee finalized the remaining documents necessary to put the contracts together for membership...

United Announces Flight Reductions in Response to COVID-19

Sisters and Brothers, United Airlines informed its employees today that the airline will reduce its international flight schedule by 20 percent and its domestic flight schedule by 10 percent in April, and have begun planning similar reductions for the month of May....