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Employee Group Representatives Status of Agreement
Southwest Mechanics Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal
Association (“AMFA”)
Amendable August 2012
Southwest Aircraft Appearance
Technicians
AMFA Currently in negotiations
Southwest Dispatchers Transportation Workers of America,
AFL-CIO, Local 550 (“TWU 550”)
Currently in negotiations
Southwest Flight Simulator Technicians International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (“IBT”)
Amendable October 2013
Southwest Flight Crew Training
Instructors
Transportation Workers of America,
AFL-CIO, Local 557 (“TWU 557”)
Amendable December 2015
AirTran Pilots Air Line Pilots Association
(“ALPA”)
Amendable December 2015
AirTran Flight Attendants Association of Flight Attendants
(“AFA”)
Amendable May 2013
AirTran Mechanics International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Local 528 (“IBT 528”)
Amendable October 2013
AirTran Ground Instructors IBT 528 Amendable March 2014
AirTran Stock Clerks IBT 528 Amendable June 2013
AirTran Ground Service Employees IBT 528 Amendable September 2013
AirTran Dispatchers Transportation Workers Union of
America, Local 540 (“TWU 540”)
Amendable March 2014
AirTran Fleet & Passenger Service
Employees (customer service, ramp,
reservations)
IAM 142 The parties have negotiated
an interim collective
bargaining agreement to be
effective until affected
AirTran Employees are
transitioned to Southwest.
A key aspect of the Company’s integration of AirTran is integration of Employees. In the case of an airline
merger, the process for integrating Employees subject to CBAs is governed by a combination of the Railway
Labor Act, the McCaskill-Bond Act, and where applicable, the existing provisions of each company’s CBAs and
union policies. Under the McCaskill-Bond Act, seniority integration (i.e., in the Company’s case, an agreement
regarding how AirTran Employees are merged into the respective seniority lists of the Southwest Employees
covered by CBAs) must be accomplished in a “fair and equitable” manner consistent with the process set forth in
Sections 3 and 13 of the Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protective Provisions. This process consists first of direct
negotiations between the incumbent unions with the assistance of the companies. If integration cannot be
achieved through agreement, seniority integration is submitted to binding arbitration by a neutral arbitrator. For
employee groups having the same representative at both carriers, the McCaskill-Bond Act provides that seniority
integration must be accomplished pursuant to the union’s internal policies if such policies exist, which may,
depending upon the internal policies, require arbitration. Employee dissatisfaction with the results of the seniority
integration can lead to litigation or arbitration, which in some cases can delay seniority integration.
Under the Railway Labor Act, the National Mediation Board has exclusive authority to resolve
representation disputes arising out of airline mergers. The disputes that the National Mediation Board has
authority to resolve include (i) whether the merger has created a “single transportation system” for representation
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