Sisters and Brothers: Your Negotiating Committee, J.D. Davis, Marshal Evans, Tom Goba, Ezekiel Coates, Alexander Osei and I, met with the Company in direct negotiations the week of November 26, 2018 at IAD. Present for the Company were Mark Reiss – Legal; Deidra Adams – H.R. Regional Manager; Robert Grant – Area Director and Wesley […]
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Mediated negotiations resumed this week for the Customer Services group in NYC under the auspices of the NMB and Mediator Gerry McGuckin. The Union received another proposal from the Company on Tuesday that was not even close to being realistic for where these talks will eventually end up. Their proposal consisted of a cherry-picked version
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Sisters and Brothers: As you know the Company sent out a memo title “Permanent Vacancies” that indicated many people would be displaced to EWR. This was a displacement announcement and the Union has addressed the fact that the ERJ members do not have a permanent vacancy bid and this should not have been titled as
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Sisters and Brothers: Yesterday, we met with Company regarding the many questions that were received regarding the ERJ furloughs. The Company has agreed to extend the window to elect furlough or COLA until 1200 midnight, Saturday 12-1-18 night/Sunday 12-2-18 morning to allow for the contractual 5 days to make elections. The list that was published did include
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Sisters and Brothers: The Company made the unfortunate announcement that they will be furloughing Flight Attendants on the ERJ side of the operation. At this time, the length of furloughs will greatly depend on pilot staffing and Flight Attendant attrition. While the Union did negotiate potential opportunities via the LOA #17 Preferential Hire Program, currently
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Due to Winter Storm Bruce, the Kansas City area is under a state of emergency. As a result, the District office will be closed on Monday, November 26th. It is scheduled to re-open Tuesday morning, November 27th. If you have any problems, please reach out to your General Chair.
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Sisters and Brothers: Today, the company announced that the DFW base will be closing January 6, 2019. While this doesn’t come as huge surprise to many of us, it doesn’t make it any less difficult to read or hear. We all know our performance on the American operation has been fabulous and as previously indicated
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Sisters and Brothers: Our fight against United Airlines discriminatory jumpseat policy has gone on long enough. We are sick and tired of the excuses and IT glitches that prevent IAM Flight Attendants access to the United jumpseat, while United Flight Attendants sit in ours every day. The lack of respect for our hard-working Flight Attendants
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Brothers and Sisters, As previously announced, the Association leadership and American Airlines Management participated in a joint conference call with the NMB mediators assigned to assist in our JCBA negotiations. The mediators are now responsible for setting the agenda, including dates for the mediated sessions. The mediators opened the call requesting the parties discuss the
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Negotiations continued in Dallas, Texas the week of November 6-8, 2018. This session your Committee continued work with Articles Five (Classifications), Ten (Part-Time Employees) and Eleven (Filling of Vacancies) also responding to Article Six (Hours of Service). Continued open dialog took place concerning Article Seven (Overtime). The company countered Sixteen (Severance Pay), as well as
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