A Taste Of Things To Come

[Nightwatch]

November 13, 2004
Bankrupt US Airways on Friday said it has filed a motion in bankruptcy court to reject labor agreements with its flight attendants, communications workers, and machinists and aerospace workers.

The motion also seeks to reduce retiree benefits and to terminate defined benefit retirement plans and "substantial reductions or elimination" of retiree health benefits

US Airways said the filing with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia does not preclude it from obtaining consensual agreements with the three unions and other parties.

The airline said it is in various stages of negotiation with the Association of Flight Attendants, the Communications Workers of America and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

Last month, the pilots union at US Airways approved a USD$300 million concession package, including pay cuts of 18 percent, to help the ailing carrier survive its second bankruptcy in two years.

The carrier filed for protection from creditors after being hurt by low-cost rivals, soaring fuel prices and a failure to win givebacks from its unions.

(Reuters)

And AA said it won't ask for anymore UNTIL it sees what happens at other airlines!

Send the message: NO MORE CONCESSIONS.....LAYOFF TULE, SAVE AA!

 

[local 12 proud]

And AA said it won't ask for anymore UNTIL it sees what happens at other airlines!

Send the message: NO MORE CONCESSIONS.....LAYOFF TULE, SAVE AA!

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I agree concessions are wrong when you have hundred's standing around without work to accomplish, but WE know how the TWU likes to save jobs at all cost :down: whoops i meant to say save DUEs at all cost :down: