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Bargaining Update: American Airlines and The Washington Post

30 Oct, 2014

American Airlines

Members of the CWA steering committee at American Airlines met in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Tex., this week, to review the results of the bargaining issue survey that agents completed and select bargaining committee members. Agents won union representation on Sept. 9 in a big NMB election victory.

Washington Post

Tough bargaining is underway covering about 900 TNG-CWA members at the Washington Post, and union workers and allies from the DC labor community rallied with Post workers outside the newspaper's offices, fighting back against the company's attack on their jobs and retirement security.

Management wants to cut wages by 17 percent, with more cuts to come. It's also demanding givebacks in severance pay, seniority and job security, and wants to end payroll deduction for union dues. Management also is demanding that the defined benefits pension plan covering longtime workers be frozen and that pensions for new employees be abolished altogether.

Last November, TNG-CWA Local 32035 reached a one year agreement, the first to be bargained under new owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.