TWA SENIORITY
INTEGRATION
Q&A
Supplement
1.0
A. Since Mr.
Kasher
awarded a minimum Occupational seniority date of
The 25% seniority credit will be
calculated as follows:
Example A:
Total TWA LLC seniority for credit
purposes:
40 years
25% credit calculation:
40
yrs. * .25 = 10 years
New AA Occupational date:
Total AA Occ.
Years as of
2.
The 10% ASM
threshold for a one-station complex was determined by using the
aggregate of
the ASMs for all the stations within the one station complex. Does this mean that the 25% seniority credit
will be awarded once all AA employees within the one station complex
have been
recalled?
A. Yes, all the stations within the one station were used to determine the 10% threshold. Since the 10% threshold is the condition to trigger the 25% seniority credit, then the application for the 25% seniority credit should be the same for the one station complex. So, once all the AA employees with recall to stations within the one station has occurred, then the entire one station complex will be provided the 25% seniority credit.
A. Former TWA
LLC employees established a company seniority date at TWA based on when
they
were hired at TWA. Since this can vary,
AA assigned what the Company seniority date was at TWA.
However, the Company did adjust Company
seniority date for lay offs, leaves of absence, etc. in line with AA
policy,
since Company seniority date at TWA was not adjusted for these periods
of
non-work time.
Under the AA/TWU agreement Aircraft
Maintenance and
Facility Maintenance are two separate Title Groups for seniority
purposes. In your situation you would have 7
years of
Aircraft Maintenance or Title I Occupational seniority if you are based
at STL
or MCI. If you are based at another station it will depend on whether or
not it
is a station above 10% ASMs and if you would receive 25% of that time or
5.
Can
our local former TWA-LCC employees bid to MCI
or STL to get seniority?
A. Former TWA LLC employees may transfer/bid/be recalled or displace into STL or MCI pursuant to the terms of the AA/TWU agreement and the arbitrators award. Once an employee is in a position at STL or MCI he/she will be provided his/her TWA LLC seniority so long as he/she is in the same classification. An employee who transfers to STL or MCI into a different classification will be provided an Occupational seniority date in accordance with the AA/TWU agreement.
A. Under the AA/TWU agreement, the
displacement or bump options listed on the option sheets include the
stations
where the least senior employee within your classification in the system
is
located. You may choose amongst only the stations listed on the option
or
“bump” sheet.
A.
Due
to the
timing of the arbitrator’s decision and the upcoming
On the
8.
If I
was laid off from a classification under the
IAM/TWA agreement while working at TWA, Inc. (prior to
A. At the time
of the acquisition American Airlines did not agree to provide recall
rights to
those former TWA employees who were laid off prior to
REDUCTION
IN FORCE/JOB PROTECTION cont’d
9.
If there is a layoff at DFW and the former
TWA LLC employees are
affected, what occupational seniority date do they have for bumping
purposes?
Due to
uniqueness of this round of reduction in force and the “no adverse
impact”
language for AA employees, former TWA LLC employees may only displace
other
former TWA LLC employees and/or AA employees on probation.
The Occupational date for displacement will
depend on where the employee is opting to displace.
For example, if a former TWA LLC employee is
opting to displace into STL, the employee will use his/her TWA LLC
seniority to
compete or determine if he/she can displace into STL.
If the employee opts to displace into ORD,
then the employee will use
10.
Former TWA-LLC A/C Maintenance personnel
have recall rights to other
stations; will they be allowed to use them, and if so, with what
seniority
date?
A. In the arbitrator’s decision, Mr.
Kasher provided the former TWA LLC employees recall rights to positions
and
station they were laid off from once all AA employees with recall rights
have
been proffered. The employees will be
recalled in Occupational seniority order.
11.
Two former TWA-LLC A/C Maint.
personnel were
laid off after 4/10/01 are currently on layoff status at DFW; will they
be recalled
and should they be recalled before any more 12L transfers are taken?
A. The former
TWA LLC employees will have recall rights to DFW as an AMT, since they
were
laid off after
12.
I am a
former TWA LLC employee who was laid off
in the past from Facility Maintenance and went to an AMT. I
was then laid off from AMT and accepted
layoff. Both of these events took place
after
A. Under the
AA/TWU agreement and since this occurred post
13.
A former TWA LLC employee or AA employee
was full time last year and now
is part time does he/she get 40 hours this year for vacation?
A. The accrual
for vacation occurs during the year 2001 to be taken the following year,
2002. Based on this, if the employee was
FT during the entire year of 2001, he/she was accruing vacation for use
in 2002
as a FT employee. Thus, the employee,
upon taking VC in 2002 would receive 40 hours for each week of vacation,
even
though they are PT at the time of his/her 2002 vacation.
This is similar to the PT employee who in
2001 accrues vacation and is paid vacation in 2002 based on the hours
worked in
2001. The formula that calculates the equivalent FT service, which
determines
the number of hours to pay for the vacation in 2002, is included in
Article 43
of the AA/TWU agreement.
14. When does a former TWA LLC employee get his vesting for retirement under the AA plan?
TWA LLC employees were credited for Company seniority based on their time at TWA, however, it was adjusted for lay offs, leaves of absence, etc. per AA policy. In addition, the TWA LLC employees were given credit for their Company time for purposes of vesting under the AA retirement plan. So, a TWA LLC employee with 5 or more years of Company seniority would be vested in the AA plan (1 year for eligibility and 5 years for vesting purposes).
15.
Can former TWA-LLC A/C Maintenance
personnel transfer and if so, what seniority date would they transfer with –
would they be able
to transfer above American Airlines A/C Maintenance personnel?
A. Former TWA LLC employees may transfer
to other
stations within the AA system and will compete with other transfers on
file for
the vacancies based on occupational seniority.
The seniority date used to compete for the vacancy will depend on
what
station he/she wants to transfer to and when.
For example, if a former TWA LLC employee at DFW (has