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President Lombardo on American’s Push to Cut Pension Contributions

Published 17 Dec, 2014 Statement by Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO President Harry Lombardo on American Airlines’ Push to Amend the Pension Protection Act of 2006 CORPORATE GREED — WHEN DOES IT STOP? AAL Making Record Profits and Asking for Pension Relief Washington, D.C. – The “new” American Airlines is attempting to renege on…

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American Asking for Pension Relief While Making Record Profits

Published 17 Dec, 2014 A Rejection of Commitments American Airlines Made to Labor to Support Merger with US Airways When Exiting Bankruptcy American Airlines’ commitment to future payments of employee pensions was key to gain support of the merger by TWU and other unions. In November 2012, American Airlines’ employee pension plans were frozen during bankruptcy…

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TWU Concludes Robust Secretary-Treasurers’ Training Seminar

Published 08 Dec, 2014 By Bob Wechsler, TWU Education & Training Coordinator The question inevitably comes up at the membership meeting, “Why can’t we afford it?’ Twenty-five local union officers, most of them Secretary-Treasurers came together at the Maritime Institute in Lithnicum, MD for an intensive 2.5-day training to learn and practice the tools of…

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Happy Thanksgiving From TWU! Support Working Families

Published 26 Nov, 2014 Brothers and Sisters, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families! Q: What is TWU grateful for? A: Your commitment to our great union, your hard work every day on the job, and everything you do to lift up working men and women! Going to be doing a lot of baking this…

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