11/23/2016 Letter to Membership

Dear Brother and Sisters,

The executive board of TWU Local 576 wants to wish each member and their families a safe and happy holidays. During these holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years please travel safely also spend as much quality time with your family and friends as possible.

Operation Free PX is taking place in San Antonio Texas on December 3rd through the 5th for our Veterans that have served our country. This event allows Veterans to receive gifts at this special time of the year and Local 576 donated $500 to this event.

Local 576 Executive Board will be meeting Dec 6th and each station will have their meeting in December also. Meeting dates and times will be posted on the website along with postings on union boards at each station. Nominations and Elections of Shop Stewarts will happen in the December meetings.

On November 15th Joseph Cruz and Tim Jackson went to Envoy HDQ to visit with the new hires for LIT and welcomed them to TWU Local 576. We want to thank our members in XNA and DFW for the TDY support to LIT. This ensures the new hires will get the proper training along with helping out the operation to guarantee LIT will be a successful operation.  

I want to thank Layne Rasmussen our VP of the Local for all the time and effort Layne has dedicated to the ASAP program for all Aircraft Maintenance Technician’s for Local 570, 572, 574 and 576.

The Local President’s are currently working on a letter of agreement with the Envoy for the TDY Go Team to ensure all policy’s under our agreement are meet and all qualified employee’s can support this TDY.

The Arbitration Panel has requested that the Envoy lawyer and TWU lawyer have the case briefs turned in by December 16th. All locals shall be given the award of the arbitrator’s decision not later than 60 days from December 16th.

Once again HAPPY HOLIDAYS and as always keep on doing what we do best. The performance and dependability of our members speak clearly that each member of Local 576 is of great value to Envoy Airlines.

Regards,
The Executive Board of Local 576
Tim, Layne, Alan, Joseph, Todd and Sellie