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Latest MEC E-line sent to Labor from ALPA and AFA.
Keep in mind, Management CAN NOT CHANGE the contractual pass policies for Retirees, 25/45, and VFLR. However, they can change term pass policies for active employees even borarding priority non-rev policies.
Its about to get ugly!
April 28, 2006
Mr. Doug Parker
CEO and Chairman
US Airways, Inc.
111 West Rio Salado Parkway
Tempe, Arizona 85281
Dear Mr. Parker,
As the leaders of the US Airways Labor Unions, we represent all of the organized employees of US Airways. We are writing this joint letter to call to your attention to an issue that we feel requires your direct consideration. We are writing about an issue of great importance to your employees, many of which rely on US Airways for travel to fulfill their obligation to their employer.
With this merger, America West Airlines has merged with a mature and diverse US Airways, an airline that is geographically distributed across the United States and particularly the Eastern United States. Because of the inherently unstable nature of this industry, many employees will not continuously relocate their families as their job moves from city to city. Consequently, many employees rely on a measure of stability and predictability in non-revenue travel so that these employees can deliver both excellence in the workplace as well as a sense of stability to their family at home (wherever that may be). Stability, in the eyes of these employees, is provided by a non-revenue travel policy that recognizes years of service to our airline.
Recent communications from the US Airways offices in Tempe have indicated that this stability and relative predictability of non-revenue travel may be in jeopardy, displaced by a different travel policy that affords employees no predictability whatsoever. Further, this alternative (America West) travel policy provides no recognition for the devoted service provided by employees who have spent their working years building this airline.
For the reasons mentioned above, we are asking you to make a choice. We are asking you to choose a company-wide non-revenue travel policy that affords stability and relative predictability to all of your employees. We are asking that length of service be respected and recognized as the method of establishing boarding priority for non-revenue travel.
We look forward to discussing this with you at the forthcoming meeting between the Labor leaders and the Labor Committee of the Board of Directors.
Sincerely,
Jack Stephan, Chairman
US Airways ALPA MEC
Mike Flores, President
US Airways MEC AFA-CWA
Keep in mind, Management CAN NOT CHANGE the contractual pass policies for Retirees, 25/45, and VFLR. However, they can change term pass policies for active employees even borarding priority non-rev policies.
Its about to get ugly!
April 28, 2006
Mr. Doug Parker
CEO and Chairman
US Airways, Inc.
111 West Rio Salado Parkway
Tempe, Arizona 85281
Dear Mr. Parker,
As the leaders of the US Airways Labor Unions, we represent all of the organized employees of US Airways. We are writing this joint letter to call to your attention to an issue that we feel requires your direct consideration. We are writing about an issue of great importance to your employees, many of which rely on US Airways for travel to fulfill their obligation to their employer.
With this merger, America West Airlines has merged with a mature and diverse US Airways, an airline that is geographically distributed across the United States and particularly the Eastern United States. Because of the inherently unstable nature of this industry, many employees will not continuously relocate their families as their job moves from city to city. Consequently, many employees rely on a measure of stability and predictability in non-revenue travel so that these employees can deliver both excellence in the workplace as well as a sense of stability to their family at home (wherever that may be). Stability, in the eyes of these employees, is provided by a non-revenue travel policy that recognizes years of service to our airline.
Recent communications from the US Airways offices in Tempe have indicated that this stability and relative predictability of non-revenue travel may be in jeopardy, displaced by a different travel policy that affords employees no predictability whatsoever. Further, this alternative (America West) travel policy provides no recognition for the devoted service provided by employees who have spent their working years building this airline.
For the reasons mentioned above, we are asking you to make a choice. We are asking you to choose a company-wide non-revenue travel policy that affords stability and relative predictability to all of your employees. We are asking that length of service be respected and recognized as the method of establishing boarding priority for non-revenue travel.
We look forward to discussing this with you at the forthcoming meeting between the Labor leaders and the Labor Committee of the Board of Directors.
Sincerely,
Jack Stephan, Chairman
US Airways ALPA MEC
Mike Flores, President
US Airways MEC AFA-CWA