Negotiations continued on April 14th, 15th and 16th, in Houston. Although the schedule had only three days for this session, it was a productive week.
From fueling planes to loading and unloading baggage, fleet service workers, or bag handlers, are the ground crew keeping airline passengers in the air.
Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET) today revealed that the Frontier name and famous “spokesanimals” will be the face of the unified branded airline. The announcement was made this morning during simultaneous press conferences in Frontier’s hometown of Denver and Midwest’s hometown of Milwaukee.
United Airlines and US Airways are in merger talks that, if successful, would create the nation’s second-biggest airline. It is the third time in a decade that they have tried to make a deal.
The Teamsters Airline Division is counting on your support for our brothers and sisters in Unite the union (England’s largest union), in their strike against British Airways (BA).
Negotiations resumed on March 23 with a planned visit from interim CEO Pat Kelly. The committee received an update on the search for a new CEO and a brief presentation on the company’s current financial status and plan for the year.
Negotiations continued beginning on March 1, 2010, in Houston, and lasted for the week. On Monday the union gave the counter proposal on Article 12. The company gave the union a counter proposal on Article 16, Moving Expenses. As we worked through the week, we went back and forth on Articles 12, 16, 13, and & 7.
Under a new rule that could be announced as early as this week, the federal agency that referees labor-management relations for airlines would allow employees to organize if a majority votes in favor of unionization.
Today, the Senate turned to the Federal Aviation Administration authorization, H.R.1586. The last four-year authorization expired September 30, 2007. What caused this 2½ year delay? Congress couldn’t agree on how to apportion the excise and ticket taxes to pay for a desperately needed modernization of the air traffic control system.
Last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and devoting $70 billion to airport infrastructure through 2012. The bill also changed an inequity in labor law which has allowed FedEx to operate under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), while other shipping companies like UPS are governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
