AA Bargaining Update, April 29

Published 29 Apr, 2016

Sisters and Brothers,

The Mechanic & Related/Stores and Fleet Service Negotiating Committees met with American Airlines the week of April 25 in Washington, D.C. Updates from both committees are below. Download M&R/Stores update   Download Fleet Service update

Mechanic & Related/Stores Update

During this week’s sessions, your Negotiating Committee exchanged and discussed the following articles:

• Temporary Employees: We reached a tentative agreement to eliminate this article.
• Hours of Service: We exchanged proposals on this article specific to rebids (bids).
• Meal Periods: We continued discussions on this article.
• Training: The committee continued work on this article in preparation to respond to the company’s proposal.
• Shift Swaps: We exchanged several proposals and have narrowed this issue down to what we understand to be a single item.
• Grievance Procedure: We continued discussions on this article, which is the basis for enforcing the contract. We are down to one item and will continue to work to achieve a tentative agreement.
• General and Miscellaneous: We continued to move items from this article to more appropriate areas of the agreement in an effort to simplify the contract. We will continue this process during upcoming sessions.

At the request of the membership, the following is a list of articles on which we have reach tentative agreements.

Current TAs:

The parties have agreed to the negotiations schedule below for the next two months:

Fraternally,

Fleet Service Update

To date, the Association Fleet Committee has exchanged the following proposals with the company:

• Sick Leave – Your committee exchanged its counter proposal to the company and is awaiting a response.
• Temporary Employees – The parties previously exchanged proposals on this article and we remain far apart from an acceptable resolution. The committee has tabled this article for additional discussion.
• Recognition of Rights – We have exchanged multiple proposals on this article and have made no headway with the company. The article has been tentatively agreed to by the Maintenance and Related/Stores Committee, yet the company is proposing different language for the Fleet Service classification. This is not acceptable. We have tabled this article for additional discussion.
• Hours of Service – We have received the company’s counter proposal on this article, which they included in Work Schedules. The committee’s position is that we will keep these as two separate articles. The company’s proposal also included shift trade language and we are working on our counter proposal.
• The company did not provide us with any new counter proposals on the outstanding articles from our opening pass in December 2015.

This week, the Fleet Committee reached tentative agreement on the following article:

• Grievance Procedures – After months of battling with the company, your committee has achieved tentative agreement regarding this article that will give members additional protections.

Thus far, the Association Fleet Committee has tentative agreement on the following Articles:

Our future Fleet negotiations dates and locations are as follows:

Fraternally,