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ANNUAL LOCAL LODGE PICNIC
JULY 12, 2008 Van Dorans Landing
11:00am to 5:00pm |
LL 1040 Monthly Meeting
Tuesday May 13, 2008
3:45pm
Clarion Inn Seatac
The Adams Room
3000 S. 176th
Seatac, Wa. 98188
Free Parking and Shuttle From Airport |
Machinists Oppose Northwest-Delta Merger
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2008 - The International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ (IAM) General Vice President Robert Roach,
Jr., today issued the following statement in response to the proposed merger
between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines:
“Airline industry consolidation will come at tremendous public expense. The
Machinists Union’s Merger Committee has examined the Northwest-Delta merger
proposal, and we firmly believe this merger is not in the best interest of
passengers, employees or the communities these airlines currently serve.
Northwest and Delta have both lobbied Congress for pension relief. Both have
also frozen their underfunded pension plans. If this ill-advised mega
venture fails, the liability for these plans will fall on the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and ultimately the American taxpayer.
We will do everything legally possible to oppose any merger that threatens
our members' jobs, labor contracts, pensions, seniority, and their right to
union representation.”
Northwest’s IAM members are the only employees at either airline that still
have an active, secure defined benefit pension plan, the IAM National
Pension Plan. The IAM represents 12,500 Northwest Airlines Ramp Service
Employees, Stores Clerks, Customer Service Agents, Reservation Agents,
Flight Simulator Technicians and Plant Protection employees. The Machinists
Union is currently organizing Delta Air Lines’ Ramp Service, Customer
Service, Reservation and Maintenance employees.
The Machinists Union is the largest Airline and Rail Union in North America,
representing more than 170,000 Flight Attendants, Customer Service Agents,
Reservation Agents, Ramp Service Personnel, Mechanics, Railroad Machinists
and related transportation industry workers. Additional information about
the Machinists Union is available at
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Airline Merger Hearing
IP Buffenbarger will be testifying next week at a hearing on the NWA-Delta
merger and industry consolidation in general. We need the hearing room to be
packed with IAM members. The information is below, and we will me sending
out an email to our Merger Watch list tomorrow. Please contact whoever you
can to get people to fly in for the hearing, as well as DC area members. We
need people from not only Northwest, but all carriers since this will be
affecting everyone in short order. Retirees will be affected in a
merger too, so please reach out to them as well. Use your website, email
lists and DL and local reps to get the information to our members.
Members should either be in uniform (if you feel they will not get heat from
their airline) or at least wearing some type of IAM gear (shirts, hats,
pins, etc.). We need them to stick out from the general public.
(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers,
Jr. (D-MI) announced that the Committee's Taskforce on Competition Policy
and Antitrust Laws will hold a hearing titled, "Competition in the Airline
Industry" on Thursday, April 24, at 10 a.m. in room 2141 of the Rayburn
House Office Building. Among the issues to be addressed, members will
examine the recently announced Delta Airlines merger with Northwest
Airlines. The CEOs of both companies – Richard H. Anderson (Delta) and
Douglas M. Steenland (Northwest) -- will testify, along with other witnesses
to be determined. WHAT: House Judiciary Taskforce on Competition Policy and
Antitrust Laws hearing, "Competition in the Airline Industry"
WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 10 a.m.
WHERE: 2141 Rayburn H.O.B.
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half who have them admit they do not know how their ARMs adjust or
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Retirees Mark Your
Calendars
Annual retirees dinner will be May 3, 2008 at the Renton Senior
Center
watch your mail for the invitations |
FMLA Request Forms
The revised NWA FMLA request forms can be downloaded here as well
as "how to" help instructions:
FMLA
Request Form
How To FMLA Request Form
How To
FMLA Medical Certification |
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With everything going on in our industry today, our members must
have accurate communication. Therefore, we are asking that our
membership submit their email addresses to the District 143 office
so that we can add them to our distribution list.
“It is crucial for our members to have access to
information about their organization; information that could have an
impact on their livelihoods,” stated PDGC Gordon. “We have a
communication tool that needs to be utilized far more than it
already is. Members can get information and read it on their time
from their homes. Moreover, members can forward the information to
their coworkers, and coworkers can forward it and so on, eventually
building an enormous chain of communication.”
District 143 would ask that after you read this –
forward this email to as many of your fellow union brothers and
sisters that you have on your personal email distribution list, then
ask that they send it to as many of their union brothers and sisters
on their email distribution list. We would also request that local
lodges submit their email distribution list to District 143 so that
we can further build our communication network. Full names, airline,
and employee numbers must be included; email addresses must be
personal, not Company addresses.
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