NMB Moves Forward With Changes To Representation Voting Rule
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Fleet Service, Mechanics, Pilots Stand Together
Monday, January 11, 2010CAL fleet service workers, mechanics and pilots rallied outside CAL headquarters in Houston last Monday, January 4 demanding a stop to the company’s sleazy anti-union campaign, and demanded fair bargaining. In Newark, our co-workers, Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ) and Teamster International Union Vice President Fred Potter delivered a strong letter to CEO Jeff Smisek with similar demands. CAL response to our campaign to form a union continues to strengthen our resolve to win and build a strong union.
REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY! REMIND YOUR CO-WORKERS TO VOTE AT THE NEAREST COMPUTER OR PHONE! YOU CAN VOTE ANYTIME—24 HOURS A DAY.
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa: Vote Today!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa, in a video greeting, urges us to look out for the voting instructions inside the envelope with “National Mediation Board” written in the top left corner. Mr. Hoffa urges us to open the envelope, read the instructions and to vote now. See the video here.
Please remember, if you don’t get your voting instructions by Saturday, January 9, contact your Organizing Committee member, or call our hotline at 1-866-832-6787 to make sure you get duplicate voting instructions.
Our Organizing Committee Urges Strength And Unity
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
In a letter to us, our CAL Committee for Victory is urging us to stay strong, calm and focused as management unleashes its anti-worker, anti-union, voter-suppression campaign.
Also, Scott Philipsen, our coworker in IAH, is appearing on video with a similar message, and also urges all of us to vote right away once we get our voting instructions.
To get involved with our campaign, call 1-(866) 832-6787, or visit our Facebook group, CAL Fleet Service Teamsters.
To read our committee’s letter, click here.
CAL Fleet Service Workers Testify Before National Mediation Board
Tuesday, December 22, 2009On Monday, three of our coworkers testified before the National Mediation Board (NMB) about unfair union election rules. Earlier in the year, the NMB proposed changing those rules to make them more fair for employees in the airline and rail industries. Under the proposed rules, union representation would be determined by the majority of voters instead of the majority of the bargaining unit, which is how the rules are currently set. Although we are moving forward with our campaign and a change of rules will not affect us, we feel testifying before the NMB was the right thing to do because it shows our support to other workers like us to want to form unions.
Director Captain David Bourne Meets With Part-Time CAL Workers
Friday, December 18, 2009
Teamsters Airline Division Director Captain David Bourne answers questions from part-time CAL Fleet Service Workers Reggie Robinson IAH, Tom Adams MCI and Alonzo Sheppard IAH. Bourne makes solid commitments to improve and protect part-time jobs.
The National Mediation Board (NMB) is well on its way to making the election process for airline organizing campaigns more democratic and fair for the nation’s airline employees.
In a two-to-one decision, the National Mediation Board has proposed to change election rules in the airline and railroad industries to allow workers to vote “yes” or “no” for union representation. The proposed change of rules would also make the outcome of an election determined by majority rule.
Currently, the votes of workers who fail to cast a ballot count as votes against forming a union.
According to the National Mediation Board, the proposed rule change “will provide a more reliable measure/indicator of employee sentiment in representation disputes and provide employees with clear choices in representation matters.”
The board will make a final decision on whether to adopt the rule after taking public comment for 60 days. At this point it is unclear if any new rule will apply to a campaign by Continental fleet service workers to join the Teamsters due to time restraints.
The Teamsters, along with 30 other unions, have been fighting diligently for the rule change. Three fleet service workers at Continental Airlines who are working to form a union with the Teamsters came to Washington, D.C. on July 29 to lobby for a fairer union election process. The three lobbied at the U.S. Capitol and met with Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa and two members of the NMB appointed by President Barack Obama.
More than 1,000 Continental fleet service workers have signed a petition calling for an end to unfair election rules. Now is the time for all of us to come together and sign the petition to help support the rule changes. The petition can be downloaded from the “documents you need” section of this website.
