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Video: AMFA - SWA Facilities Maintenance Technician Negotiations Update #6

AMFA Joint Advisory Council Meeting

Officers and representatives of AMFA met on February 4, 2014, for a Joint Advisory Council (JAC) Meeting in Las Vegas, NV.

In November the AMFA delegation composed of Louie Key, National Director; Dave Brooks, National Safety & Standards Director and AEI Secretary of the Americas; and Brad Fornelius, Local 14 VP and “Delegate at Large” attended the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) 41st Annual Congress in Melbourne, Australia. AEI is the only global aircraft maintenance technician craft-specific affiliation.

Local 18 General Membership Meeting

Members and officers of Local 18 met on November 21, 2013, to conduct the Local’s General Membership Meeting. Also in attendance were Assistant National Director Aaron Hansen and National Secretary/Treasurer Justin Madden. AMFA National would like to thank Local 18’s LEC for their hospitality and dedication to the membership.

AMFA - SWA Facilities Maintenance Technician Negotiations Update #6
March 10, 2014 -- We began our two-day session on Tuesday morning, March 4th. The Company began by presenting their “Status of Agreement” counter proposal. They also asked to table “Classifications” for now. We presented our “Severance Pay” and “Union Representation” counter proposals. We worked through a few concerns and tentatively agreed (TAed) to both those sections.
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National Director's February 2014 Update
February 28, 2014 -- The first week of February 2014 the Association held its Joint Advisory Council (JAC) meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The JAC is comprised of the National Executive Council, all Local Presidents, and one Airline Representative from each carrier. We met to discuss an array of issues important to our membership ranging from contract negotiations to leveraging new technology that may enhance participation at local membership meetings, and many other relevant topics.
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AMFA - SWA Technician Negotiations Update #16
February 18, 2014 -- We met in San Antonio, TX on Monday, February 10, 2014, to begin a scheduled two and a half day Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) negotiations session. AMFA National Director Louie Key joined our committee and began the session with a speech identifying several issues that our committee feels are impeding the negotiation process. These items include the huge concessionary "wants" from the Company, the inaccurate Company updates, and the publicizing of the covered work groups’ Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) and negotiation progress on their new website. The discussion morphed from the initial statements into a fairly vigorous conversation.
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Compliance Reminder: Cover All The Bases
February 18, 2014 -- Who has the accountability in aircraft maintenance? The Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) of course. Supervisors or fellow technicians who advise you how to accomplish a task are not responsible for what happens if it is done incorrectly. If maintenance is not done properly, it could result in an incident which will cause you to have to file an Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) report. The number one cause of ASAP reports or involvement with the FAA is failure to follow the maintenance manual.
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Torqued: Brain Drain in Maintenance Sector Needs Another Look
January 3, 2014 -- Imagine seeing this headline: “Major Airline Uses Student Pilots on Passenger Flights.” There would be universal outrage and condemnation if an airline tried to put students in the cockpit on passenger-carrying flights–even if “just” to handle the radios or practice touching some of the controls in cruise flight. Slow as it is to react to some safety issues, even the FAA would be all over that airline in a millisecond.
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ASA Annual Wage Review Discussions - Second Year Review
On September 30, 2013, AMFA and Alaska Airlines met in accordance with the terms of Article 23, Wage Rules to initiate discussions for our annual wage review. Both sides reviewed and agreed to all data used for the review. We then started by doing an external review of our “all in” wage as compared to the seven carriers referred to in the Contract. The rates used where as of October 17, 2013, the day the contractual minimum 1.5% base wage increase would have gone into affect.
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Shoddy Workmanship Blamed for Tear in Boeing 737's Roof
September 28, 2013 SEATTLE (AP) -- A National Transportation Safety Board report blames shoddy workmanship for an in-flight tear in the roof of a Southwest Airlines plane in 2011. The Boeing 737-300 was en route from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., on April 1, 2011, when a 5-foot-long gash opened in the fuselage.
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