Air Wisconsin · CWA-AFA Carrier Financial Report

Summary

Visible structure: the public filing trail points to the CWA-AFA sector funding the Air Wisconsin MEC and Air Wisconsin LECs separately rather than showing a fully documented MEC-to-LEC pass-through.
Most recent verified MEC filing: the FY ending 05/31/2024 Air Wisconsin MEC LM-3 reports 120 members and $79,407 in total receipts and disbursements.
Most recent verified local filing: the FY ending 05/31/2024 Air Wisconsin LEC 24003 LM-4 reports 85 members and $6,874 in total receipts and disbursements.

Filing Map

Air Wisconsin has to be read in layers. Parent CWA is the upstream filing layer. The CWA-AFA sector LM-2 is the clearest public source for direct Air Wisconsin affiliate funding. The Air Wisconsin MEC and LEC filings then show what is publicly visible at the airline and local layers.

Parent CWA filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.
CWA-AFA sector filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.
Verified stand-alone Air Wisconsin MEC filing: FY ending 05/31/2024 MEC LM-3.
Verified stand-alone Air Wisconsin LEC filing: FY ending 05/31/2024 LEC 24003 LM-4.

Sector Funding Overview

FY2025: AFA MEC Air Wisconsin $16,342; AFA LEC 24003 Air Wisconsin Airlines $96,016; AFA LEC 24029 Air Wisconsin Airlines $336,774.
FY2024: AFA MEC Air Wisconsin $9,741; AFA LEC 24003 Air Wisconsin Airlines $98,578; AFA LEC 24029 Air Wisconsin Airlines $330,075.
FY2023: AFA MEC Air Wisconsin $93,238; AFA LEC 24003 Air Wisconsin Airlines $98,160; AFA LEC 24029 Air Wisconsin Airlines $306,606.

These are visible CWA-AFA sector allocations to Air Wisconsin-identified affiliates. They are not, by themselves, a complete measure of all bargaining, legal, administrative, or parent-supported service delivered to the property.

Local Share

This metric measures the percentage of visible Air Wisconsin-tagged CWA-AFA sector funding that went directly to named Air Wisconsin LECs rather than to the Air Wisconsin MEC.

Formula: (LEC 24003 + LEC 24029) ÷ (MEC Air Wisconsin + LEC 24003 + LEC 24029)

FY2025: ($96,016 + $336,774) ÷ ($16,342 + $96,016 + $336,774) = 96.4%.
FY2024: ($98,578 + $330,075) ÷ ($9,741 + $98,578 + $330,075) = 97.8%.
FY2023: ($98,160 + $306,606) ÷ ($93,238 + $98,160 + $306,606) = 81.3%.

Treat this as a floor, not a complete service measure. It captures only direct Air Wisconsin-specific CWA-AFA sector funding lines that are publicly visible on the sector LM-2. It does not capture all upstream support, bargaining support, staff-negotiator time, legal work, release-time value, or overhead that may still benefit Air Wisconsin members.

Verified Stand-Alone Filing Signals

Air Wisconsin MEC LM-3 (FY ending 05/31/2024): 120 members; $79,407 in Other Receipts; $79,407 in Total Receipts; $79,407 in Total Disbursements.
Air Wisconsin LEC 24003 LM-4 (FY ending 05/31/2024): 85 members; $6,874 in Total Receipts; $6,874 in Total Disbursements; $5,489 in payments to officers and employees.
Air Wisconsin LEC 24029: no stand-alone annual filing independently surfaced in this review.

The stand-alone FY2024 MEC and LEC filings do not simply mirror the sector transfer lines. That difference is one reason the sector snapshot and the stand-alone filings need to be read as separate layers.

Negotiations and Compensation Visibility

Under CWA-AFA Section VI, the MEC selects the Negotiating Committee and Staff Negotiator. Air Wisconsin says its current committee was elected by the MEC in March 2022 after an all-member nomination process. The public LM-3 does not show a separate negotiator-pay line, so officer-negotiator lost time and reimbursements appear to be aggregated into officer disbursement reporting rather than disclosed as a distinct bargaining-pay line.

The posted Air Wisconsin contract says the union generally pays actual time lost for released union business, with limited company-paid joint meetings. That means some bargaining service is visible only indirectly in the public filing trail.

For a deeper explanation of how CWA-AFA negotiating committees are chosen, how staff negotiators are assigned, and where compensation appears in public reporting, see How CWA-AFA Negotiating Committees and Staff Negotiators Work.

Interpretive Caution

The public filing trail for Air Wisconsin does not support a simple assumption that the Air Wisconsin MEC received one funding pot and then distributed the local shares downward. The visible record instead points to the CWA-AFA sector funding the Air Wisconsin MEC and the Air Wisconsin LECs separately.

That matters for value-per-dues-dollar analysis. The visible local percentage is useful, but it should be read together with the Air Wisconsin MEC’s own spending, the separate LEC filings, and upstream CWA and CWA-AFA bargaining support that may not be fully allocated in a carrier-only filing.