Dispatch Update
February 13, 2016

Airline Division Achieves Improvements for FST’s
Today the Airline Division is proud to announce that two MOU’s (Memorandum of Understanding) have been agreed to and finalized in regards to the FST (Flight Simulator Technician) group. Local 19 began this work during negotiations last year, but talks on these MOU’s stalled recently. Leadership from the Division reached out to leadership from the company to jumpstart these talks. In addition to finishing the MOU’s a verbal understanding was reached with the Division in regards to the FST move packages. If there is not a joint agreement in place when the simulators are consolidated into the Denver facility, the affected FST’s will use the move package in the Technician’s agreement. This is an improvement over the current move package in the standalone sCO FST CBA.
The first MOU allows for the continued operation of the training door shop crew in Houston. This MOU will protect members in IAH working on the Flight Attendant door training module. The second MOU protects those FST’s in IAH that have an A&P license. The company will carry an overage to allow these technicians to remain in Houston rather than relocate them to the Denver facility.
Fortunately, by pressing the company on these issues and continuing work into this weekend, the FST group was able to gain these improvements. Copies of these MOU’s will be distributed shortly to the affected members.
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