At today’s MEC meeting some of ALPA’s advisor’s answered questions and spoke to the MEC. Here are some key questions and answers:
Question to ALPA’s legal counsel Mike Abram’s from Cowen Weiss, & Simon (who holds a law degree from Harvard and has 30 years of labor law experience): What could happen if the MEC sends the TA out for vote prior to the October 7 S.1113(e) hearing?
Answer: “The company will NOT ask to impose the 1113(e) on the pilot group. The company will let the process play itself out as far as
a pilot ratification is concerned. If the MEC DOES NOT send this out to the pilots prior to October 7 the company WILL ask the judge for 1113() relief on Thursday, Oct 7.â€
Question: Is the best deal you are going to get?
Answer: “Yes, it will get worse from as time goes on.â€
Question to ALPA National E&FA economist Bob Christy, a former Eastern Airlines pilot. Is the best deal you are going to get?
Answer: “The rate of failure in bankruptcy is very high. The job of the judge is to try and get a company out and he will do what it takes. If you do not send this out for ratification we will have to defend you for all the contract items that the company wants - i.e. 23%. The company will not be interested in negotiating any more. I am living proof that bankruptcy does not work. I will stay in this room but you have got to get this done - there will not be a better tomorrow (Note’ there was a loud applause and standing ovation from the crowd of about 45 pilots). I LIVED WITH THE DEVIL (LORENZO) - I SEE THE COMPANY NOT BEING ANY WHERE LIKE HIM - THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THIS AIRLINE WORK. The company has not over asked from us. The mount we are giving are very marginal at best - with respect to making this company survive. They probably need more, “Christy said.
Question to Negotiating Committee Chairman (NC) Doug Mowrey: Do you see the ask going up if we turn this down?
Answer: “There is no time - they will just let the judge do it and the “ask†will be higher. Then NC members Jack Greenhall and Ted Schott basically agreed with Mowrey’s comments.
After the MEC had exhausted their questions, Chairman Bill Pollock recessed the meeting at 1:47 p.m. and will reconvene on Tuesday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. at the Pittsburgh Airport Hyatt Hotel.
MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - October 2, 2004
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Saturday, October 2nd, with one new item.
The MEC reconvened this morning at 10:00 a.m. at the Charlotte Marriott Executive Park. They continued their discussion of the Tentative Agreement (LOA 93) in open session and received briefings from our legal counsel and advisors. At the request of some MEC members to have more time to review the document and to have another opportunity to ask questions of all our advisors, the meeting was recessed at 1:47 p.m. to reconvene in PIT on Tuesday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. at the PIT Airport Hyatt Hotel.
All pilots are encouraged to attend this meeting, at which time the MEC will take action on whether or not to send the TA out to the membership for ratification.
In anticipation of the possibility that the MEC may elect to send the TA out for ratification at the PIT meeting, the following tentative roadshow meetings have been scheduled:
Tentative LOA 93 Road Show Schedule
10/7 PIT Crowne Plaza Hotel 10:00 A.M.
10/8 CLT Renaissance CLT Suites 10:00 A.M.
10/11 PHL Renaissance PHL Airport 10:30 A.M.
10/12 BOS Holiday Inn Logan Airport 10:00 A.M.
10/13 DCA Crystal Gateway Marriott 10:00 A.M.
10/14 LGA LGA Airport Marriott 09:30 A.M.
Please remember we have 1,879 pilots on furlough.
Thank you for listening.
Every key ALPA advisor will attend this meeting and pilot’s will be able to hear with their own ears what the advisor’s have been telling the MEC for months.
Membership ratification can take as little as 7 days and the membership could vote on the TA as soon as October 14 and possibly October 15, based on the road show schedule listed above, if the MEC elects to send out the ballot and conclude the road shows per the schedule listed above.
Listed below are the key dates:
October 5 – Special MEC meeting reconvenes
October 7 – S.1113(e) hearing
October 12 – S.1113(e) hearing expected to conclude
October 14 – First Omnibus hearing
October 15 – ATSB interim financing ends
IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE THAT EVERY PILOT ATTEND THIS MEETING. DO NOT BE APATHETIC AND BELIEVE THAT YOUR PRESSENCE DOES NOT MATTER OR THAT YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT. THIS IS IT PRIOR TO "IMPOSITION". SEE YOU AT THE MEETING.
Regards,
USA320Pilot
Question to ALPA’s legal counsel Mike Abram’s from Cowen Weiss, & Simon (who holds a law degree from Harvard and has 30 years of labor law experience): What could happen if the MEC sends the TA out for vote prior to the October 7 S.1113(e) hearing?
Answer: “The company will NOT ask to impose the 1113(e) on the pilot group. The company will let the process play itself out as far as
a pilot ratification is concerned. If the MEC DOES NOT send this out to the pilots prior to October 7 the company WILL ask the judge for 1113() relief on Thursday, Oct 7.â€
Question: Is the best deal you are going to get?
Answer: “Yes, it will get worse from as time goes on.â€
Question to ALPA National E&FA economist Bob Christy, a former Eastern Airlines pilot. Is the best deal you are going to get?
Answer: “The rate of failure in bankruptcy is very high. The job of the judge is to try and get a company out and he will do what it takes. If you do not send this out for ratification we will have to defend you for all the contract items that the company wants - i.e. 23%. The company will not be interested in negotiating any more. I am living proof that bankruptcy does not work. I will stay in this room but you have got to get this done - there will not be a better tomorrow (Note’ there was a loud applause and standing ovation from the crowd of about 45 pilots). I LIVED WITH THE DEVIL (LORENZO) - I SEE THE COMPANY NOT BEING ANY WHERE LIKE HIM - THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THIS AIRLINE WORK. The company has not over asked from us. The mount we are giving are very marginal at best - with respect to making this company survive. They probably need more, “Christy said.
Question to Negotiating Committee Chairman (NC) Doug Mowrey: Do you see the ask going up if we turn this down?
Answer: “There is no time - they will just let the judge do it and the “ask†will be higher. Then NC members Jack Greenhall and Ted Schott basically agreed with Mowrey’s comments.
After the MEC had exhausted their questions, Chairman Bill Pollock recessed the meeting at 1:47 p.m. and will reconvene on Tuesday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. at the Pittsburgh Airport Hyatt Hotel.
MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - October 2, 2004
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Saturday, October 2nd, with one new item.
The MEC reconvened this morning at 10:00 a.m. at the Charlotte Marriott Executive Park. They continued their discussion of the Tentative Agreement (LOA 93) in open session and received briefings from our legal counsel and advisors. At the request of some MEC members to have more time to review the document and to have another opportunity to ask questions of all our advisors, the meeting was recessed at 1:47 p.m. to reconvene in PIT on Tuesday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. at the PIT Airport Hyatt Hotel.
All pilots are encouraged to attend this meeting, at which time the MEC will take action on whether or not to send the TA out to the membership for ratification.
In anticipation of the possibility that the MEC may elect to send the TA out for ratification at the PIT meeting, the following tentative roadshow meetings have been scheduled:
Tentative LOA 93 Road Show Schedule
10/7 PIT Crowne Plaza Hotel 10:00 A.M.
10/8 CLT Renaissance CLT Suites 10:00 A.M.
10/11 PHL Renaissance PHL Airport 10:30 A.M.
10/12 BOS Holiday Inn Logan Airport 10:00 A.M.
10/13 DCA Crystal Gateway Marriott 10:00 A.M.
10/14 LGA LGA Airport Marriott 09:30 A.M.
Please remember we have 1,879 pilots on furlough.
Thank you for listening.
Every key ALPA advisor will attend this meeting and pilot’s will be able to hear with their own ears what the advisor’s have been telling the MEC for months.
Membership ratification can take as little as 7 days and the membership could vote on the TA as soon as October 14 and possibly October 15, based on the road show schedule listed above, if the MEC elects to send out the ballot and conclude the road shows per the schedule listed above.
Listed below are the key dates:
October 5 – Special MEC meeting reconvenes
October 7 – S.1113(e) hearing
October 12 – S.1113(e) hearing expected to conclude
October 14 – First Omnibus hearing
October 15 – ATSB interim financing ends
IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE THAT EVERY PILOT ATTEND THIS MEETING. DO NOT BE APATHETIC AND BELIEVE THAT YOUR PRESSENCE DOES NOT MATTER OR THAT YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT. THIS IS IT PRIOR TO "IMPOSITION". SEE YOU AT THE MEETING.
Regards,
USA320Pilot
