American Airlines Unions are becming Restless

American Airlines unions are growing even more impatient with the pace, or non-pace, of contract talks.

First, several Transport Workers Union local presidents have written letters expressing frustration and unhappiness with the TWU international leadership as well as American. And the Allied Pilots Association is grousing about the National Mediation Board.

Jim Iuliano, president of Local 562 in New York, started out a letter to TWU International President Jim Little by saying: "I've come to learn over the many months I spent negotiating that we lack leadership and direction."