AMFA–Southwest Airlines AMT
Contract Negotiations Update
Update #44 August 11, 2016
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 heard from you, the members, at the outset of these negotiations that you were not interested in a
concessionary agreement. Your Committee has maintained that position and protected your directive
throughout this process. The proposal presented by the Company this week was nothing short of just
that – a concessionary agreement whereby you would fund your own raises by selling your language.
The Company wants us to sell our work, our ability to earn overtime and quality of life work rules
wholesale in order to fund the economic package you will see in this update. In fact, the Company
delivered a prepared speech following presentation of its last economic pass, which informed your
Committee that there is no deal unless we abandon language that we have fought for years to secure.
This does not sit well with your Committee – we trust it does not sit well with you either. Please keep
this in mind as you read through this update.
We met with the Company beginning on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, for a scheduled three-day mediated
negotiation session. The Company presented a proposal, which included its remaining work rule
requests and a counter to AMFA’s last economic pass. The Company’s remaining work rule proposal
included:
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