Frontier seeks to reject union contracts

[UAL_TECH]

Frontier seeks to reject union contracts

Frontier Airlines asked a U.S. bankruptcy court on Friday to reject its contracts between several local unions, representing 425 mechanics, cleaning crews and materials specialists.

The move would lead to a loss of 130 mechanics jobs, as Frontier seeks to outsource all of its heavy maintenance work to a company in El Salvador.

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[Bobbie]

In this Wall Street hoe-down that's been going on, "Employee First" is obsolete, unfortunately. When Southwest files bankruptcy to bust the unions, you'll know all hope is lost for the American airline worker.

The attitude of these scoundrels is startling: Why share any leftover money with the people who make your company run when you can split it 90/10 between the executives (90%) and the shareholders (10%). Screw the employees. If they aren't happy, they can go work for another airline.

Remember when Bush said "the smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud" and everyone rallied to go to war in Eye-Rack? Yeah, look where it got us. Employees have to stand up to these people and not blindly accept what's being thrown at them from the scrap heap... They're treating them like SLAVES and they're taking it.

It must be from water fluoridation or something, but when I go to an airport hubbed by a scoundrel airline like US Airways, 20 years ago, I'd expect fully to see people picketing outside the terminal and I've love to give them a pat on the back while I flew another carrier. Instead I see the heads down, shoulders slouched and everyone going to work for the airline like they're not being screwed over every day.

STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES PEOPLE AND MAKE IT RIGHT.

 

[jimntx]

Remember, though, that at Frontier the largest single employee group, the flight attendants, are not unionized. Also, I don't think their gate/ticket counter agents are unionized; so, this must be just pilots, and maybe mechanics and rampers. Does anyone know which groups at Frontier are unionized?

 

[Bradly71]

Remember, though, that at Frontier the largest single employee group, the flight attendants, are not unionized. Also, I don't think their gate/ticket counter agents are unionized; so, this must be just pilots, and maybe mechanics and rampers. Does anyone know which groups at Frontier are unionized?

Yup... I work for F9. Only the pilots and mechanics are unionized.

 

[UAL_TECH]

and dispatchers.

Frontier Airlines announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement with one of its unions for long-term wage and benefit concessions. Leaders of the Transportation Workers Union (TWU), which represents the airline's dispatchers, agreed to wage and benefit concessions through September 2012. The agreement will be presented for ratification by the union membership and for approval by the court overseeing Frontier's Chapter 11 case.

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[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

You didn't really think the TWU would fight back did you? The TWU is always the first union to cave in.