American Airlines Bargaining Underway for Contract Covering 14,000 Agents

Bargaining with American Airlines is underway!

CWA members of the bargaining committee, from left: Tom Gunning, Pres. Local 1171, Boston; Roxanne Hartfield, LaGuardia, NYC; Vickey Hoots, Pres. Local 3640, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Kenneth Grunwald, Southeast Reservations Office, Cary, N.C.; and Richard Shaughnessy, Miami.

The CWA/IBT union bargaining team prepared and developed proposals, focusing on the issues that agents highlighted in their bargaining surveys, and negotiations with management began Dec. 17 in Dallas. The union bargaining team is negotiating a contract covering 14,000 passenger service employees at American. About 11,500 agents are represented by CWA.

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