Teamsters Airline Division Week in Review News Letters

New TSA Policy Will Undermine Security of Flying Public and Crew Members   The Transportation Security Administration’s recent decision allowing knives in the aircraft cabin is an outrageous move that will endanger the security of the flying public and the safety of thousands of flight attendants and pilots, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said today. […]

Piedmont Negotiations Continue Contract negotiations commenced on Monday, March 4th and continued through Thursday, March 7th. Proposals were passed on Article 5 (Filling of Vacancies), Article 16 (Leaves of Absence), Article 6 (Furlough and Recall) and Article 17 (Sick Leave). Progress was reported in discussions on these contract articles and tentative agreement was reached on

ExpressJet Negotiations Update  Negotiations continued this past week, February 27th through March 1st in Baltimore.  While Airline Division Director David Bourne, met last week with Brad Holt to discuss a solution to a unified ExpressJet/ASA agreement; the focus of this week’s session was work on the Express Jet contract with the assistance of the federal

ASA/XJT Mechanics Show Support at Airline Division-XJT meeting Airline Division Director David Bourne was in Atlanta on Friday to meet with XJT Chief Operating Officer Brad Holt in an effort to break the log jam that has slowed mechanic contract negotiations to a crawl over the last 12 months. Director Bourne was accompanied by Lead

Continuing Progress at UAL / CAL / CMI Negotiations  Despite wrapping up early to allow members to get home before the East Coast blizzard, union negotiators for the UAL / CAL / CMI mechanics and management progressed this week in Chicago.  The parties met to continue Phase 1, non-economic reconciliation talks. The focus was on

New Airline Division Website Now Online  This week capped the culmination of many weeks of hard work when the new Airline Division website went live on Thursday. The new site brings together all the information from the many Division locals as well as information and links from the International and a newer and improved newsfeed

UAL Mechanics Negotiations Continue to Progress  The third consecutive week of meetings between management and union negotiators for a joint combined contract between the mechanics of UAL, CAL and CMI continued on Monday January 21, 2013 with an internal union caucus. The purpose of the caucus was to discuss the activity of the previous two

Mediator Puts Hold on RAH Negotiations              After proposals put forward failed to produce an agreement between pilots and management, the NMB has advised the Local 357 and RAH management that further negotiations will not be scheduled at this time. The mediator has advised both parties that she will contact them in early summer

Division Director Meets with Centurion/Sky Lease, Atlas Air  Airline Division Director David Bourne travelled to Florida this week for meetings with the management of Centurion and SkyLease Air Cargo. Discussions were wide ranging and covered topics of mutual interest regarding the carriers operations.   He also met with members of Atlas Air Worldwide (Local 1224

Governmental and Regulatory If Congress and the White House are unable to make a deal  to avert automatic spending cuts, set to go into effect Wednesday, there will not be an immediate effect on the Department of Transportation and its agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a DOT official. Airlines and Labor Boeing