We the Executive Board of Local 576 want to thank you for your continuing support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each and every one of us has many concerns with living on a daily basis during this health crisis and must practice social distancing, wearing our mask when required and wash our hands. We must continue with all this to protect our families, friends and coworkers.

In January 2021 TWU Locals 570, 572, 574 and 576 will be going into contract negotiations with Envoy Air for Aircraft Maintenance Technicians, Inspectors, Tool And Die Mechanics, Ground Support Technicians, Repairman, Aircraft Cleaners And Inventory Control Specialist.

Your TWU Veterans Committee is calling for active duty, reserve, and Guard service members, and honorably discharged veterans. If you fall into one of these categories, please register. Doing this will allow our International Veterans Committee (TWUVC) to serve our veterans community more effectively and efficiently.

Please follow the link http://veterans.twu.org/ to register. Once your registration is complete, you will receive a TWU Veterans pin, patch, and coin. Feel free to wear the pin on your uniform to display that you are a proud United States Armed Forces veteran and TWU Member!

Applications are now being accepted for the Michael J. Quill Scholarship Fund. This scholarship will offer fifteen (15) college-bound dependents of TWU members a scholarship worth $4800.00. This scholarship will be paid out, each year in the amount of $1200.00 to winners who continue to be eligible over their four (4) year course.

All of the above sponsored scholarships will be paid out in the first year, as a single scholarship.

Please click HERE or go to www.twu.org for an application and for additional information and rules, including eligibility requirements.

The deadline for all applications has been extended to May 24, 2020; no applications postmarked after this date will be accepted. No applications will be accepted by fax or email – there will be no exceptions. Winners of the scholarships will be determined by a public drawing, to be held in May. Winners will be notified by mail 5 – 7 days thereafter.

Brothers & Sisters

The company has determined an employee’s value, this determination in notably not an employee’s geographic value.
Apparently having determined their bankruptcy imposed concessionary contract along with the imposed amendment concessions, employees have not yet given enough or been through enough.

Now the company selectively gives some employees a geographic premium but most of their employee’s receive nothing.
In this regard, these insulting actions by the company, have a great number of employees really considering if this is who they want to work for. By these actions a clear message has been sent to each of us. The company has displayed for us all to see. Do the rally respect each of us or is it as it appears, a false sense of value and respect, just smile for the camera. Continue reading →

Brothers and Sisters

The company has received the results of their survey they asked all employees to participate in earlier this year. Well the results for Aircraft Maintenance and Related did not favor the results they were expecting; instead they were unfavorable for many departments within our work groups. It’s hard for the upper management of envoy to understand why your performance for them is still superior of all other regional airlines flying the American Eagle brand or even American Airlines performance. Envoy get more planes, employees get more PIZZA/CUPCAKES.

Now Senior Leaders question themselves as to why your performance is so good but why do they feel they way they do? It’s simple; you have secured Envoy future with little to no respect from them. We feel that the Envoy motto is “IF THEIR NOT HAPPY, JUST BUY THEM PIZZA”. Pizza don’t pay the bills and we’re all tired of PIZZA! Continue reading →