AA reaches tentative agreement with TWU fleet service

[FWAAA]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/y!finance/amr/stories/052910dnbusaacontract.49377695.html

 

[Rogallo]

Well, that gets most of the company lapdog union out of the way. Now it gets good!

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

I'm hearing DFW and MIA took the lead in jawboning this through.

Of course we're getting the "Mushroom Treatment" from the TWU, so who knows.

 

[Thomas Paine]

I'm hearing DFW and MIA took the lead in jawboning this through.

Of course we're getting the "Mushroom Treatment" from the TWU, so who knows.

Thats not what I heard. I heard MIA stood firmly against it. Word is the new guy is a fighter.

 

[Kev3188]

Anyone have a link to the high/lowlights of this T/A?

 

[OgieJFK]

Sigh

Why am I not suprised this was pushed thru. I'm sure 90% of air frieght (jfk) will say they voted no but really voted yes on another concessionary contract.

In my 23 years of service i've NEVER voted yes on a contract.....i'm not about to now. VOTE NO

The TWU (Totaly Worthless Union) is the Neville Chamberlain of unions.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

Anyone have a link to the high/lowlights of this T/A?

We'd like one ourselves Kev.

Got one call this morning that said "We had a TA, Daytime cabin was gone and DFW and MIA were out in front to accept.".

Haven't heard anything since.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

No Information




Although the committee cannot recommend the T/A, we believe the membership should have the final say. The decision to bring the T/A was made based on the NMB's premise that there would not be any other meetings scheduled until the end of year or possibly later.

Better to exist under the current agreement for another six or more months than to rush into another concessionary agreement.

Your Negotiating Committee believes the members should use their vote to decide. The committee also took into serious consideration that the NMB would not look favorably upon the negotiating committee not allowing the membership to vote on the Companies final offer.

So it'll get shot down and the International will accept it 'in our best interests'?

Great.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

http://aa.twu.org/Uploads/fleet052810.pdf


Well well well...looks like quite a coup for the company.

Outsourcing galore and a new peon classification! I'm sure the TWU has secured the rights to be their bargaining agent, after all they have to make up for the dues they'll be losing.

 

[Kev3188]

Ick.


$10.00 top out? Great. Just great.

One quick question: I see the CC override is $1.75/hr. What is it now?

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

Ick.


$10.00 top out? Great. Just great.

One quick question: I see the CC override is $1.75/hr. What is it now?

$1.50/hr


I don't know where they get the idea people are going to jump through hoops for a minimum wage job.

 

[Ed Norton]

Sigh

Why am I not suprised this was pushed thru. I'm sure 90% of air frieght (jfk) will say they voted no but really voted yes on another concessionary contract.

In my 23 years of service i've NEVER voted yes on a contract.....i'm not about to now. VOTE NO

The TWU (Totaly Worthless Union) is the Neville Chamberlain of unions.

Neville Chamberlain? What did Neville do to you that you should insult him so? How about this: TWU, the Judas Iscariot of unions! :angry:

 

[Hopeful]

The Fleet Service TA should not surprise anyone. Once the first TA was reached with Mechanic and Related, it lessened the bargaining power of the remaining titles.

 

[eolesen]

Although the committee cannot recommend the T/A, we believe the membership should have the final say. The decision to bring the T/A was made based on the NMB's premise that there would not be any other meetings scheduled until the end of year or possibly later.

Not at all surprising, and I'd assume that this isn't just for the clerks. I'll bet my shift differential for the last month that the NMB's political appointee leadership is going to do all possible not to rock the boat until after the mid-term elections are over in November....

Not that I think a Ch.11 filing is in the immediate future, but with Stores, FSC, and M&R all having TA's, a pretty strong case can be made that the two parties have already negotiated in good faith, which is one of the triggers necessary in a S1113 hearing..... It probably won't matter if the agreement is passed by the membership if the bargaining agent(s) felt that this was reasonable enough to call a TA.

I'm not taking a position one way or the other on whether or not you guys should pass this or not, but just looking at it from a neutral point of view.

 

[700UW]

Negotiations before a bankruptcy filing has nothing to do with Section 1113, once a company files they have to follow Section 1113 in order for an abrogation to occur. Negotiations have to start all over again.

The steps have to be followed AFTER, what happens prior has no bearing, trust me I lived it at US as I was on the M&R NC.