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 Stassi has held the positions of shop-steward, union awareness instructor, ramp committee, grievance committee chairman, local lodge trustee, local lodge president and was elected as a delegate to the Grand Lodge Convention in 2000 and 2012. Stassi was named District 141 Organizing Director in 2012. Joe also holds an Associate’s degree in Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

 Joe has been a vital component of successful IAM organizing campaigns at AirTran, United Airlines and US Airways. Stassi led the recent IAM organizing drive at Spirit Airlines in which 80 percent of fleet service employees voted IAM.

"The MTA has had its heels dug in since day one," said IAM District 19 President Jeff Doerr. "We've argued our case for a fair contract before two PEBs and the MTA wants to pretend the PEBs never happened because both found its position to be unreasonable. Enough is enough."

The parties met yesterday afternoon and the MTA stated it need time to review the unions' latest counter-proposal. No new talks have been scheduled.

"We have advised the MTA that we are available to meet anytime to continue talks and avoid a needless disruption of transportation services to over 300,000 New York City area commuters," continued Doerr.

the IAM’s events. “Airline workers everywhere will benefit when Delta employees are unionized.” The ITF’s Cabin Crew Committee recently passed a resolution supporting the IAM’s campaign. “This is the second IAM Delta event in which we participated,” added ITF Civil Aviation Secretary Gabriel Mocho. “We are eager to welcome Delta Ground Staff and Cabin Crew into the global union community.” IAM Delta activists were invited to discuss their global campaign with national civil aviation leaders from UNITE, the U.K.’s largest union with more than 1.42 million members. UNITE is also Europe’s largest Flight Attendant union, representing more than 30,000 Flight Attendants at British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Thomas Cook, easyJet and others.

To put United’s loss in perspective, Delta and American both reported robust first quarter financial results of $281 and $481 million respectively, historically known as the airline industry’s weakest.

“To blame weather and competition is misguided,” continued Delaney. “Sure, those were factors, but every airline deals with bad weather and competition. But what about United’s antiquated reservations system—SHARES—and the slow and insufficient training offered to pre-merger United employees who never worked with that system? What about relying on low-paid sub-contractors who don’t deliver the same level of service as United employees? Those were bad business decisions by United management.”

United also stated the carrier is seeing an uptick in customer satisfaction, but the American Customer Satisfaction Index—the barometer of industry performance—says otherwise. In its annual report, United placed dead last in domestic customer satisfaction for the second consecutive year.