TWU/IAM Members: How Long Will Negotiations Take?

[Worldport]

True. But Megadeth put out a killer recording last week and another favorite band of mine just put out a 2 hour and 10 minute piece of pure musical treasure for my ears. Here's a sample.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWs3iDg5aDY

 
Reviews for The Astonishing have been mostly positive. In his review for Metal Hammer magazine, Dave Ling called the album "stupefyingly complex, cinematic and ambitious almost to the point of lunacy", rating it 8 out of 10.[24] Thom Jurek from AllMusic similarly praised the album, giving it 4 stars out of 5, concluding that "as demanding as it is, the story and music are worth the effort."[20]

 
The German magazine Metal Glory called the album "Perfect - an absolute masterpiece", giving it 10 out of 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astonishing

I looked up Metal Glory it has a circulation of 14 and is subsidized by the record companies. What size venue is Megadeth booked into these days? The local Holiday inn and the Clyde Beatty  Cole brother circus tent D ?

 

[WeAAsles]

I looked up Metal Glory it has a circulation of 14 and is subsidized by the record companies. What size venue is Megadeth booked into these days? The local Holiday inn and the Clyde Beatty  Cole brother circus tent D ?

Is this better? And Rolling Stone HATES Prog Rock more than these guys on here hate the Association.
 
However flamboyant or corny the exercise might seem, the players to their credit commit to it fully, while also littering the sonic landscape with chopsy flourishes to reassure the faithful. Enacting all eight characters, vocalist James LaBrie gives a tour de force performance, the specter of Dennis DeYoung circa Paradise Theater and Kilroy Was Here hovering like a Jedi mentor. The sort of stylistic wanderlust and cinematic grandeur that Dream Theater unfurled across a 22-minute span in "Illumination Theory" (from 2013's Dream Theater) gets compressed here into brief, dense passages, which set the stage for grand rock arias you easily could imagine Sarah Brightman or Josh Groban coveting ("The Gift of Music," "Act of Faythe," "Hymn of a Thousand Voices").
 
It's all enriched by David Campbell's lush orchestrations, reminiscent of vintage Bob Ezrin (he of Pink Floyd's The Wall as well as Kiss's Destroyer – and, yes, Music from 'The Elder'), and scrupulously captured by engineer Richard Chycki. The results won't please every Dream Theater partisan, nor will they convert the skeptical. But it would take a hard heart to deny Petrucci, co-composer and keyboardist Jordan Rudess and their mates credit for the boldness of their aspirations and the assurance with which they achieve them.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/dream-theater-the-astonishing-20160129#ixzz3ygCF2xKZ
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Megadeth is playing festivals this year BTW.........

 

[WeAAsles]

Dream Theater # 3
Megadeth # 8

http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-music-albums/zgbs/music/ref=pd_dp_ts_m_1

 

[paul1]

Parker in the sota said he hopes we have a contract by the end of the year!  WTF! The ass

 

[Worldport]

Parker in the sota said he hopes we have a contract by the end of the year!  WTF! The ass

I'll bet DL goes up before then

 

[CMH_GSE]

I'm thinking that's optimistic .
We are barely past the preamble.
They're stuck on uniforms and grievance procedures right now, but don't worry, they're all getting plenty of hotel reward points as they work it out.

 

[AANOTOK]

Just curious, I'm too lazy (code for to dumb) to figure it out, but based on our profit this year, what would a profit sharing check have looked like?

 

[ASSociation Clown]

Just curious, I'm too lazy (code for to dumb) to figure it out, but based on our profit this year, what would a profit sharing check have looked like?

Based on this chart that I found http://www.twulocal512.org/docs/PROFIT%20SHARING%20PAYOUT.pdf
 
Roughly about $5,000 this year if the chart is somewhat accurate for an AMT 

 

[dfw gen]

Based on this chart that I found http://www.twulocal512.org/docs/PROFIT%20SHARING%20PAYOUT.pdf
 
Roughly about $5,000 this year if the chart is somewhat accurate for an AMT 

did the twu do the math? then no not accurate.

 

[WeAAsles]

Based on this chart that I found http://www.twulocal512.org/docs/PROFIT%20SHARING%20PAYOUT.pdf
 
Roughly about $5,000 this year if the chart is somewhat accurate for an AMT 

So what you want to do now is look at the Profit AA made for 2013 and do a comparison to what that PS payout would have been against the 4.3% raise you got in exchange for it. Then do that with the corresponding years and see which one would have given you more value? Don't forget that your subsequent raises were based on the wage you were making with the 4.3%.

Don't forget to put in the match to your 401k also.

 

[bob@las-AA]

Based on this chart that I found http://www.twulocal512.org/docs/PROFIT%20SHARING%20PAYOUT.pdf
 
Roughly about $5,000 this year if the chart is somewhat accurate for an AMT 

 
From the info you provided,
Total Operating Profit   = $6,204,000,000
Total Employee Wages= $9,524,000,000
5% First Dollar              =$310,200,000
 
$310,200,000 / $9,524,000,000 = 0.03307
 
0.03307 X $50,107.20 = $1,657.05
 
Are you still looking to get PS?

 

[700UW]

http://www.local591.com/index.cfm?zone=%2Funionactive%2Fview_article.cfm&HomeID=549733
 
Presidents Letter to the Membership February 4, 2016
 

What is lost in the weekly Association Update are that multiple Articles of the current TWU CBA are being discussed and combined into what will be our new CBA.  So in reality, the number of Articles exchanged and in work from the current TWU CBA is actually into the teens. 
 
The membership needs to know that while the negotiating process is moving in the right direction, American does not appear to have their proposals prepared; like was said many times in the town hall meetings.  What also seems to be slowing down the process is the start and stop nature of the current negotiating schedule.  Hopefully, after we complete the current negotiating schedule, we will be given a schedule that has us negotiating without interruption until we reach a JCBA. 
 

 

[Worldport]

http://www.local591.com/index.cfm?zone=%2Funionactive%2Fview_article.cfm&HomeID=549733
 
Presidents Letter to the Membership February 4, 2016
 

A little gamesmanship by the company. You talk so long to get to the table' now you'll wait

 

[1AA]

Why would Parker be a guest speaker for this organization?
Plan on more outsourcing as soon as he lines up the agreements at the MRO road show.

http://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=966913078&e=28966&elq=82a53e795a5548469fd5034292bd6345

 

[dfw gen]

Why would Parker be a guest speaker for this organization?
Plan on more outsourcing as soon as he lines up the agreements at the MRO road show.

http://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=966913078&e=28966&elq=82a53e795a5548469fd5034292bd6345

heads up Tulsa.