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  • Air Transport July 21, 2015

    TWU-IAM Association Schedules New Meetings: Reconciliation Process Continues

    In continuing the process to initiate joint contract bargaining with American Airlines, your TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees have scheduled meetings the weeks of July 27th and August 3rd in Chicago, Illinois. The Negotiating Committees will continue the “reconciliation process.” “Reconciliation” simply means that the committees examine contractual language—article by article—analyze the provisions and identify the

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  • Air Transport July 10, 2015

    TWU-IAM Association Moves Closer to Joint Contract With American

    Mechanic & Related/Stores/MCT and Fleet Service TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees met for the first time this week at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Training Center in Hollywood, MD. The Contract Preparation Program was launched by TWU-IAM Association Chair and Vice-Chair, Sito Pantoja and Harry Lombardo, who pledged the full support of the Association to attain

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  • Air Transport June 17, 2015

    IAM ExpressJet Flight Attendants Pound the Pavement, Demand Equal Pay

    IAM represented ExpressJet Flight Attendants yesterday once again took their fight for equal pay public by conducting nationwide picketing with their AFA-CWA sisters and brothers. Picket lines appeared at major airports around the country, including Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Flight Attendants informed the

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  • Air Transport June 17, 2015

    Schumer Visits District 19 Members in Hornell, NY

    New York Sen. Chuck Schumer joined IAM District 19 leadership, to urge the Department of Transportation to green light Amtrak’s efforts to buy brand new Acela trains. At Alstom Transport in Hornell, NY, Schumer, alongside Directing General Chairman John Lacey and General Chairman Gary Naylor, said the roughly $3 billion train project could significantly improve

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  • Air Transport June 16, 2015

    NMB Releases Unions on New Jersey Transit, Unions Say PEB is Next

    The National Mediation Board (NMB) yesterday released every commuter union on New Jersey Transit (NJT) from mediated talks.??The unions—including the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—working together in the New Jersey Transit Rail Labor Coalition, immediately announced their intention to invoke a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), which will make non-binding recommendations to settle

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