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AMFA SWA Technician Negotiations Update # 24
Sep 15, 2014

AMFA/Southwest Airlines Contract Negotiations Update

Update # 24 September 15, 2014

The Negotiating Committee is providing this update to the AMFA Membership at Southwest Airlines. This report is the only official authorized source of negotiating communications by the Committee.

We met for Aircraft Maintenance Technician and Related (AMT) negotiations on Wednesday, September 10 and the afternoon of Thursday, September 11. The Company began discussions by notifying us that they were prepared to present their counter offers for Article 11: Vacations, Article 12: Leaves of Absence, Article 13: Sick Leave and On-The-Job Injuries, and Article 20: Insurance Benefits. They began with their Article 12 counter offer where they omitted their request to install language detailing a three (3) year limit to any absences, which would result in an employee being removed from the seniority list. They then presented their Article 13 counter offer that included the denial of our proposed language allowing an employee to use their accrued sick time to care for an immediate family member. The Company explained this as a "no go," but suggested we Tentatively Agree (TA) to the article and leave this issue on the side in case another workgroup is able to obtain this benefit. They then moved to explain their Article 11 counter offer where they said they are seeing the sixth (6th) week of vacation being requested across the board with all groups in negotiations. They also said they were not ready to "go there" in regards to the vacation sellback or vacation bank programs we had proposed, stating no other workgroup was asking for these types of programs. The Company again stated they would like to TA articles with the items that we agree to and keep the items for which we are not in agreement on the side.

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