Teamsters Airline Division Week in Review News Letters

Airline Division News Items Amerijet Strike Continues and Garners Broad Support From Teamsters and Other Unons The pilots and flight engineers of Amerijet International have been on strike since last Thursday after having tried for five years with mediation assistance of the National Mediation Board to get a contract.  Up until last week, the NMB […]

Airline Division News Items Frontier Employees Ratify New Long Term Contract The Teamsters won an appeal of a bankruptcy ruling and as a result a new agreement was negotiated and a comprehensive settlement of the company's litigation under section 1113 of the bankruptcy code was agreed to. That agreement was ratified by the membership.  The

Airline Division News Items Link to Airline Division Dashboard Now on Teamsters Airline Division Webpage To help you keep up with the news about all Teamster Airline Division carriers we have placed a link to the IBT Airline Division Dashboard on the Teamster website (http://www.teamster.org).  News for each carrier is constantly updated and the Dashboard

Airline Division News Items NMB Releases Amerijet into a 30-day Cooling Off period The National Mediation Board notified Amerijet that they have been released into a 30-day cooling off period after which self-help could potentially begin.  Self-help can include a strike against the carrier. The 30 day period is up at 4 p.m. on August

Airline Division News Items FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 Out of Senate Commerce Committee and Contains Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) Provisions on Foreign Repair Stations On July 21, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved the "FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act" (S. 1451) by voice vote.  It includes McCaskill provisions

Airline Division News Items Teamsters Have Good Meeting with Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn) Regarding Airline Bankruptcy Reform The Teamsters have been pursuing reform of the bankruptcy code by having Section 1113 of the code modified to exclude airlines, just as railroads are currently excluded.   Section 1113 allows judges to abrogate union contracts by following certain

Airline Division News Items National Mediation Board Proffers Arbitration for Amerijet and Teamsters In 2006, the IBT had requested mediation services of the National Mediation Board to help to attain a collective bargaining agreement with Amerijet.  On July 7, 2009 the NMB stated, "Despite the Board's best efforts to bring about an amicable settlement through

Airline Division News Items Teamster Airline Division Director and Republic Pilot Leader to Meet With Republic Airways Holdings Senior Management to Discuss Potential Purchases of Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines David Bourne and Peter Pranger, Pilot ExCo Chairman, will meet with Wayne Heller, Chief Operating Officer of Republic Holdings, next week to discuss Republic’s bid

Airline Division News Items Teamster Mechanics Meet with Senators to Promote IBT Legislation On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, a group of Teamster mechanics from Continental, United, and Horizon and led by Chris Moore and Airline Division consultant Jack Albertine met with 14 Senate offices, both Democratic and Republican.  Three pieces of legislation were

FedEx Launches Campaign to Derail Proposed Legislation FedEx announced a "multimillion-dollar" campaign to derail proposed federal legislation that would make it easier for the company's workers to organize.  FedEx has been the sole beneficiary of a provision that its lobbyists quietly slipped into legislation in October 1996, making FedEx the only freight and package-delivery company