Air Local 512

Weekly Update

June 14, 2019

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Today, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the Company filed for a temporary restraining order against the TWU/IAM Association. They go on to say that the allegations of illegal conduct have dramatically escalated and has become devastating to the operations. They continue to accuse the association of doing nothing to stop the allege slowdown, but instead, have "continued to issue inflammatory statements." In its filing, they continue to use small snips of TWU International President John Samuelsen's speech during a town hall meeting in New York with Robert Isom.

The Company will continue with its motion for an injunction against the TWU/IAM Association. But they believe that the Temporary restraining order is necessary. There has been no court filing response from the association after this court filing this afternoon. It seems that the filing is geared towards unions airline mechanics.

On June 11, both parties conducted a court-sponsored settlement conference in DFW. They discussed the facts of the case and the issues to be tired but were unable to settle. There has been some progress, but the prospects of reaching an agreement were low. The next Court ordered settlement conference is next week, they did agree to continue discussing a resolution to the case. If no settlement can be reached, then the trial will start on July 1.

Also, this week, the TWU/IAM Association took out a full-page ad on the Wall Street Journal. Once we get more information about the temporary injunction against the association, we will share it with everyone.

American Airlines announced that they agreed to a rehabilitation plan to strengthen the IAM Pension Fund and protect its retirement benefits. Both Company and IAM agreed to a Preferred Scheduling of the plan. The Company chose to increase its financial contribution so that it would ensure the future monthly benefits at age 65 for the IAM will not be reduced. The question now is what about the TWU counterparts and our pension?

In our Push Committee meeting, a change is in progress, and after much discussion and review. The Committee agreed that beginning Saturday, June 15, pushes involving gates K1 through K5, any push on the North line must be completed and cleared before K5 being allowed to push. The use of the Supertug has a tentative start date of July 8. It would involve a four-person arrival procedure.

Once again, lessons are due June 15, please don't wait till the last minute to get them done to avoid issues that may arise.

From all of the officers of TWU Local 512, we wish everyone a very Happy Father’s Day.

512 Strong

Juan Elvira

President

TWU Local 512

Jelvira@twulocal512.org

(847)956-6996

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