Early-out option would offer American Airlines flight attendants a $40,000...
comments ()UPDATE: Confirmed, the “last, best and final offer” from American Airlines includes an early-out option that would give flight attendants with at least 15 years’ seniority a $40,000...
View ArticleFlight attendants won’t finish voting on contract until after judge’s deadline
comments ()On Saturday, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants issued a hotline that spelled out the timeline for voting on American Airlines’ “last best and final offer.” The interesting...
View ArticleOpponents to TWU contract put out video
comments ()The presidents of four Transport Workers Union locals have produced a video encouraging members to vote against the tentative agreements that are now before mechanics and related employees...
View ArticleGlading spells out all the reasons flight attendants should vote for American...
comments ()In a message to members Thursday, Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading spelled out all the reasons that they should vote for American Airlines’ “last, best...
View ArticleNegotiators for American Eagle, flight attendants reach tentative deal
comments ()American Eagle and the Association of Flight Attendants said Friday that their negotiators have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract. “American Eagle is pleased we were able to...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines, American Eagle dropping jobs in bankruptcy
comments ()Some of the biggest job cuts planned by American Airlines and American Eagle are still to come. Even so, the two carriers combined had eliminated nearly 3 percent of their jobs since filing...
View ArticleHorton: We’re not going to say what we’ll do if unions turn down proposed...
comments ()We talked Wednesday morning to AMR and American Airlines chairman, president and chief executive officer Tom Horton. One subject was what American Airlines would do if the Association of...
View ArticleAmerican Eagle flight attendants will vote Aug. 8-Sept. 5 on new contract
comments ()Under cost-cutting pressure from American Eagle management, Association of Flight Attendants leaders voted Thursday to send a tentative agreement to a vote by the 1,800 American Eagle flight...
View ArticleUnited Airlines pilot union chief: We stand at the threshold of a new day
comments ()With Friday’s announcement of an agreement in principle with United Continental Holdings, the two Jays who head the Air Line Pilots Association units at United Airlines and Continental...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines will ask judge to toss out labor contracts if unions turn...
comments ()An American Airlines spokesman confirmed Friday afternoon that the carrier will ask U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane to toss out the collective bargaining agreements of unions that turn down...
View ArticleResults of two American Airlines’ union votes will be released after noon today
comments ()The results of voting on tentative labor agreements by the members of two American Airlines’ unions will be released today — some time after noon Central Time. The Allied Pilots Association...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines’ pilots reject a tentative agreement, two other union...
comments ()American Airlines Inc.’s pilots rejected a tentative labor agreement, their union said today. Sixty-one percent of the pilots represented by the Allied Pilots Association voted against the...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines’ creditors’ committee issues new statement regarding union...
comments ()American Airlines Inc.’s Unsecured Creditors’ Committee last night issued a statement after its labor subcommittee met regarding two major developments. First, “to prompt consensual...
View ArticleTransport Workers Union president calls for stop to “unacceptable and...
comments ()James C. Little, international president of the Transport Workers Union, last night issued a letter to its members at American Airlines Inc., calling for certain “unacceptable and reckless...
View ArticleHorton addresses the American Airlines troops in letter
comments ()We have this letter from Tom Horton, chairman, president and CEO of AMR and American Airlines, that went out to employees Monday morning: August 20, 2012 Dear American Team: We are now...
View ArticleI’m back. Did I miss anything?
comments ()Some observations, mostly stating the obvious: – The Transport Workers Union vote of 50.25 percent approval for the mechanics and related contract is an excellent indication of the division...
View ArticlePilots ask for a bunch of information from American Airlines
comments ()The Allied Pilots Association has asked for a lot of information from American Airlines so that the union can evaluate American’s revised contract proposal. Under Section 1113 of the federal...
View ArticleGlading: Now we need to work together to get rid of American Airlines management
comments ()In case there was any doubt, Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading on Tuesday repeated the message that the union membership must work to replace American...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines files motion for approval of its TWU deals
comments ()American Airlines, in papers filed late Wednesday, asked a bankruptcy court to approve its collective bargaining agreements with the Transport Workers Union. The mechanics and related...
View ArticleBankruptcy trustee objects to agreement to pay unions’ professional fees
comments ()The U.S. bankruptcy trustee is objecting to American Airlines’ agreement to pay professional fees incurred by the Transport Workers Union and Association of Professional Flight Attendants....
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