?This demonstration during the Super Bowl.. put the public spotlight on the ongoing dispute and lack of a decent contract for the TWU members at American Airlines.? AMR, the parent company for American Airlines, has awarded executives more than $300 million in bonuses while frontline workers have seen wages reduced by 30 percent and thousands have been laid-off. Contract talks for fleet service workers, mechanics, flight dispatcher and other TWU-represented work groups has dragged on for more than four years, despite the assignment of federal mediators. 

"American's management talks a good game," said Darrin Pierce, president of TWU Local 513, which represents baggage handlers and other ground workers. "However, their record shows that they don't play fairly and they have hurt the combined team effort by lining their own pockets while starving ground workers and other frontline employees." 

The NFL Players Association has come out in support of the TWU protest and their campaign for an equitable contract. Members of fellow unions, including the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), joined TWU members on the picket line. Locals representing workers at American Airlines are rallying behind ?one union, one voice? to secure a contract that respects and rewards the hardworking people of American Airlines.