Negotiation Updates

Event Planned for Annual Shareholders Meeting As previously reported in the Dispatch, mediated talks have not been going well. As a result the negotiating committee requested of the Division that all possible legal pressure be brought to bear on the Company to move these talks forward. The first planned event will take place at the

The parties assembled the week of May 11th in Las Vegas under the direction of the National Mediation Board in hope of receiving a full comprehensive proposal from the company. On Tuesday morning the Company passed their version of a comprehensive economic proposal, which was in the form of a two-page bullet point presentation.  The

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Negotiations Update March 1, 2015 The parties met February 23rd through the 26th in face-to-face negotiations under the direction of the NMB in Newark.  The IBT passed Article 16 – (Health and Welfare), for review.  After the IBT made the pass there was a Q and A session on the general structure of the TeamCare

   On March 11th and 12th the parties met in Rosemont IL. On the 11th, the Union Negotiating Committee presented its comprehensive proposal to the Company. The proposal included the rank and file negotiating committee’s wage proposal, scope provisions, health and welfare, work rules and pension. The presentation took approximately two hours to deliver. The

On February 3rd the Benefits Committee convened at the offices of Cheiron in Chicago to review the TeamCare proposal. This is the proposal that was reported on in the January 17th Dispatch and was provided to the Benefits Committee that weekend. The Benefits Committee spent the previous two weeks reviewing the proposal and the corresponding