Teamsters Airline Division Week in Review News Letters

NMB Sets Election Dates for Allegiant Pilots, Division Confirms Local Affiliation After being informed by the NMB that the voting dates for the allegiant pilots have been set for August 2nd through 23rd, Airline Division Director David Bourne also announced that should the pilots of Allegiant choose to be represented by the Airline Division, they […]

  Airline Division Director Congratulates Allegiant Pilots on Decision to Seek Union Teamsters Airline Division Director Captain David Bourne congratulated the pilots of Allegiant Air for their decision to seek union representation. In a letter this week to the pilots, Bourne said: “You have an important task at hand, making a determination on the course

  Delta Pilots Contract May Pose Risk for Comair Flight Attendants The recent ratification of the pilots’ contract at Delta Airlines may create significant risks for the Comair flight attendants whom are represented by Local 513. Under the new agreement, both Delta management and pilots have agreed to specific fleet changes to the 50 seat

Airline Division Files for Representation Elections at Allegiant Air This morning, the Airline Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it has made an application to the National Mediation Board (NMB) for a representation election to be held for the pilots of Allegiant Air.  “We are honored to have been asked by the pilots

Last week, we incorrectly identified Robert Rasch as a Business Agent for Local 19. Brother Rasch is in fact the President and Principal officer for Local 19. We apologize to Brother Rasch for the error and to our readers. Airline Industry News Governmental and Regulatory The FAA’s announced delay for implementation of stricter pilot training

Despite Announcement of Job Losses in IAH, RUL will Protect UAL/IBT Members Since United announcement of the loss of 1,300 jobs in Houston as a result of the UAL/CAL merger, many members have expressed concern over their future. Thanks to the foresight of the union and the adoption of  the Resource Utilization >Letter, (RUL) signed

ExpressJet / ASA Stock Clerk Negotiations Continue Contract negotiators for the Express Jet and ASA Stock clerks met and continued discussions from June 5th through June 7th in Atlanta. They were able to finish working on Classifications, Bid Areas and Work Areas and reached a tentative agreement on that section of the proposed contract.  Tentative

Comair F/A Negotiations Continue This week negotiations for Comair Flight Attendants continued with steady progress being made in several areas. The parties exchanged proposals on Deadheading, Sick Leave, Moving Expenses and Labor Disputes. Discussions were also conducted on Scheduling. Following the week's bargaining session, the Comair Flight Attendants negotiating committee began informational meetings with the

  UAL Teamsters Attend Safety Roundtable The UAL Teamsters Flight and Ground Safety committees attended the Integrated and TechOps Safety Roundtable, or (I)SRT, in Chicago on Wednesday this past week. The ISRT gathers all the operational divisions together to review information collected through the various reporting programs like ASAP, CASS, and LOSA. The goal is

ExpressJet Negotiations Update Contract negotiations continued with mediated sessions, Tuesday April 17th through Friday April 20th, in Philadelphia. New tentative agreements were reached on Section 13, Training and Section 5, Filling of Vacancies. Additionally, Section 6 – Reduction in Force and Recall and Section 3 -Classifications, were discussed. With five Tentative Agreements having been reached