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...Board hearings late last week where they presented their arguments for a new contract to the three-member board. O.V. Delle-Femine, director of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, said last Thursday that his union was ready to talk...
...from $41 million for the union's nearly 10,000 mechanics, cleaners and custodians to $88 million, said O.V. Delle-Femine, national director of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, confirming figures the Star Tribune obtained...
...mechanics and cleaners until further notice, indicating the union had not presented a serious wage proposal. O.V. Delle-Femine, the union's national director, said the NMB action "smacks of favoritism toward NWA." "A recess only enhances...
...and optimistic this action indicates we can finally bring some closure to this process by week's end," said O.V. Delle-Femine, AMFA's national director. Northwest spokesman Jon Austin declined comment, except to say the airline will...
...process, it would have to conclude that further mediation would not be successful. The union's national director O.V. Delle-Femine called on the company to join the union in asking to be released from the formal mediation process. A release...
...intermittent strike, in which airports would be hit periodically without prior warning. AMFA National Director O.V. Delle-Femine has favored the RIS concept, while MacFarlane and others have said an all-out walkout gives the union more leverage...
...We're hopeful and optimistic this action indicates we can finally bring some closure to this process," said O.V. Delle-Femine, AMFA national director. "AMFA remains confident that resuming negotiations will result in successful closure...
...that the negotiations between AMFA and NWA now come under the jurisdiction of the Presidential Emergency Board," O.V. Delle-Femine, the union's national director, said in a news release. Delle-Femine said Bush intervened "just as negotiations...
...House intervention now is premature, unjustified and unprecedented," said the union's national director, O.V. Delle-Femine. United Airlines, the world's largest carrier, also is disputing with its mechanics, and both sides are being...
...threat of a presidential emergency board could force these other unions to accept substandard contracts," said O.V. Delle-Femine, AMFA national director. The country's biggest carrier, United, also is in contract talks with its mechanics...