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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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.

Save My Home Hotline Set Up for Union Members

Many homeowners have adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs)—but nearly half who have them admit they do not know how their ARMs adjust or reset, and nearly three-quarters do not know how much their monthly mortgage payments will increase when they do, a new national survey reveals...

 

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  

Email – Get the Info

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. Send your email address in now!

 

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