The Joint Association Mechanic & Related/Stores and Fleet Negotiating Committees met with American Airlines this week in Dallas. Updates from both committees are below.

The following negotiation dates have been scheduled for the rest of the year:

Week of December 5 – DCA    Week of December 12 – LAS

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Fleet Service Update

This week, we focused on overtime and vacations, and during this session we exchanged multiple proposals and held several lengthy deliberations. We understand that these articles are very important to the membership and the complexity of the two separate agreements requires extensive attention to detail in the language proposed. While we have not reached tentative agreements with the company, we have reduced the outstanding issues in these articles.

In the meantime, the company has not responded to the following articles for an extended period of time:

• Recognition of Rights and Compliance – The company wants to reserve the right to direct or assign our work under certain circumstances, without the direction of a Crew Chief/Lead.
• Holidays – The rate of pay and the number of holidays are the outstanding issues in this article.
• Sick Time – We remain apart on the number of sick days accrued each year and the accrual bank balance.
• Part-Time – The company wants to base the part-time ratio on the total number of fleet service employees versus the total number of full-time employees.

Current TAs:

Fraternally,

Mechanic and Related/Stores Update

During this week’s session, the Committee exchanged and discussed the following articles:

• Hours of Service - M&R, MLS & MCT – We exchanged multiple proposals on this Article in an effort to reach closure. As we closed the week, we believe that we are close to reaching a tentative agreement.
• Vacation – MCT – We presented a counter proposal on this Article.
• Limited Duty- M&R, MLS, MTS and MCT –The company presented a counter proposal on this Article. We will continue to work on our response to their counter proposal.
• Overtime – M&R – We did not exchange or discuss this Article in this session. We remain steadfast in our positions on NO mandatory overtime, limiting job continuation and pay for overtime bypass.
• Overtime – MLS and MCT- We did not exchange or discuss this article in this session. We remain steadfast in our positions on NO mandatory overtime and pay for overtime bypass.
• Vacation – M&R & MLS – We are waiting for the company to respond to our proposal.
• Holidays – M&R, MLS, MTS and MCT – We have narrowed this Article down to holiday payment. We did not receive a proposal from the company this week.

M&R= Mechanic & Related
MLS= Material Logistics Specialists (Stores)
MTS- Maintenance Training Specialists
MCT= Maintenance Control Technicians

Current TAs:

*HOS = Hours of Service

Upcoming negotiating sessions:

The week of Dec. 5-DCA           The week of Dec. 12 LAS
The week of Jan. 9-PHX            The week of Jan 24-MCO
 

Fraternally,