Teamsters Airline Division Week in Review News Letters

NetJets Controllers, Technicians and Related Update  The NetJets Negotiating Committee worked internally through the week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday writing a counter proposal to Article 22- (Classification), and finalizing the union language on MCC Classification. Along with Article 22, the Committee also finished their proposal on Article 20 – (Training) with emphasis on incorporating

National AMT Day  Sunday May 24th was National AMT day and the TAMC and the Teamsters Airline Division would like to take a moment to recognize our thousands of Aviation Maintenance Technicians.   Your hard work and dedication to aviation safety is without a doubt a corner stone in the success of our outstanding industry

Court rules in favor of Allegiant Pilots   In a status conference hearing this week, a district judge in Nevada ruled in Allegiant pilots’ favor, saying that disputes involving violations of the parties’ current collective bargaining agreement and practices relating to that agreement must be resolved through final and binding arbitration chaired by a neutral, third-party arbitrator

NetJets Vice President fired for Anti Union activities against Pilots After discovering that a NetJets Vice President was engaged in anti union activities; discovered as a consequence of the lawsuit filed by NetJets pilots in December 2014, the company has fired the individual and the President and COO have also left the company. According to

Hostages, Union Fight Back as FlexJet Sued over Illegal Terminations and Union Harassment   Pilots filed a lawsuit against Flexjet, LLC and OneSky, its Cleveland-based parent company, claiming they were illegally harassed and three terminated for speaking out in favor of unionization and better working conditions. Flexjet, LLC employs over 350 pilots who operate luxury

WSJ Reporting Error Leads to Clarification by Airline Division Director  Whether it was poor fact checking or a badly timed April Fool’s Day joke may never be known, but an April 1st  report by the Wall Street Journal questioning the legal right of Allegiant pilots to strike the troubled carrier on April 2nd  brought a

Airline Division Director to Allegiant Air management; “It’s time for you to get serious”  While the NMB considers the request for a Proffer of Arbitration filed by the Airline Division against Allegiant Air; Teamsters Airline Division Director Captain David Bourne has a simple message for Allegiant management: it’s time for you to get serious. “You