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This is APA Communications Committee member First Officer Scott Shankland with the APA Information Hotline for Monday, Dec. 1.
NEGOTIATING UPDATE: After a nearly seven-week break, formal negotiating sessions with AMR resumed this afternoon. According to the National Mediation Board mediator-directed agenda, AMR’s negotiators were slated to offer specific counters to APA’s responses to portions of management’s latest scheduling proposal. To our disappointment, management had no scheduling proposals or responses to discuss. In fact, they were not prepared to conduct bargaining on any area of the contract.
In a subsequent caucus with the NMB mediators, APA discussed the current status of negotiations. Bargaining was suspended and another day was lost because AMR was not prepared to negotiate, did not adhere to the agenda, and was not held accountable by the NMB. They continue to ignore the NMB’s direction and agenda, are non-responsive to APA proposals, and refuse to discuss major issues such as compensation, stagnation and furlough protections.
Negotiations are set to resume tomorrow afternoon.
That’s all for today. Thank you for checking this hotline.
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