Former TWA Flight Attendants to Picket Own Union Over Rehiring Process

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Former flight attendants for Trans World Airlines, which was bought out by American Airlines in 2001, will lose their chance to be rehired by the parent company of American Airlines, AMR Corp., (AMR) this year, five years after the September 2001 terror attacks.

The 2,900 former flight attendants will begin picketing their own union to show displays of anger towards them for not trying hard enough to get their jobs back. The ex-TWA employees say they want to stay in the hiring line, hoping that the conditions in the industry will continue to improve enough so they can regain their jobs.

American has declined to extend the rehiring deadline of five years except as part of negotiations for a new contract in 2008.

The fight goes back to early 2001, when AMR bought TWA out of bankruptcy. The American Airlines flight attendants' union put TWA veterans at the bottom of their seniority list, meaning they were the first to be laid off.

A class-action lawsuit over stripping seniority from the TWA employees is pending in federal court in New York.

It really is sad that people who want to work for a company are not going to be allowed to remain in line for the hiring process. Some of these people that were laid off five years ago were high on the seniority list when the two airlines merged together.

St. Louis Post Dispatch (STLtoday)

What happned to people who had TWA frequent flight miles. I only had 6,843 but didn't know if there was an reciprocity or transfer from other airlines.

Posted by: Anonymous | September 26, 2007 9:57 AM | Permalink to Comment

My dad was a TWA Aviator (their frequent flier program) and most of his miles were converted to AAdvantage miles on American. But you only had so long to move them over to American miles.

So I'm afraid you've lost those miles.

Posted by: Rob | October 5, 2007 3:29 PM | Permalink to Comment

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