At no time has ALPA (or its successor USAPA) or the Company formally suspended negotiations for a single agreement per the terms of Section V.G of the Transition Agreement. At all times, the Company remained ready and willing to meet for further negotiations for a single agreement.
21. Following USAPA’s certification, US Airways and USAPA began meeting
regarding a single collective bargaining agreement on June 16, 2008. In the four and one-half
months since that time, the parties have since met for a total of 21 days, have passed 79 proposals
on 24 of 30 sections of the single collective bargaining agreement, and have reached tentative
agreements on four sections. On September 30, 2008, USAPA passed an initial seniority
integration proposal to US Airways. To date, the parties have scheduled six additional days
negotiations to take place before December 4, 2008. Despite these efforts with both ALPA and
USAPA, to date, the parties have not yet reached agreement on a single labor contract.
Hemenway declaration.