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Name: The Technician
Date: Friday, September 13, 2002
Time: 11:16 PM
Comments
When is a raise not a raise? In May of 2002 AMFA delivered the 3% negotiated raise for the NWA Technicians. Their base wage rose from $28.00 to $28.84 with the total compensation for an average NWA AMT set at $33.79 per hour. The pay raise is an additional $67.20, before taxes, per pay period . This equates to a monthly, pre tax ,increase of $134.40 per month or an annual, before tax, increase of $1,747.20. Their raise WILL BE SHORT LIVED and will still placed the average NWA Technician $1.12 behind the average UAL Technician. This equates to the average NWA technician NOT receiving $89.60, before tax, per pay period. To carry this a little further the average UAL mechanic is paid an extra $179.20, before tax, per month or $2329.60, before tax, per year. Now comes the tricky part! When AMFA negotiated the last contract they allowed a huge hole to exist in their contract concerning medical benefits. AMFA did not negotiate any caps or language to keep the company from unilaterally increasing the medical costs. On Tuesday September 10, 2002 NWA announced that beginning in January 2003 all Technicians and Related employees would have to start paying 20% of their medical costs. Prior to this the company paid the premiums. The vast majority of NWA Technicians are enrolled in the managed-care and preferred-provider programs, Technicians who enroll in those two plans for 2003 will have to pay 20 percent of the premium costs. Next year a single person in the managed-care program would pay a monthly premium of $58. The family payment would be $174. In the preferred-provider program, a single person would pay $61 a month and a family would pay $191. A Technician’s family who selects the $174, per month medical plan, will take a pay cut next year of $.0.24 per hour. A technician’s family who selects the $191, power month, medical plan will lose $0.35 per hour less than his 2002 earnings. This move by the company not only negates the pay increase ,but caused a NWATechnician to see his monthly , before tax, income to be reduced by between $38.40 to $56 per month or $499.20 or $728 , before tax, per year. This means that every Technician at NWA will be paid less money for the first five month of 2003 then they were paid in 2001,when they signed the agreement. The average NWA Technicians should have seen their income increased by $1.70 per hour in May 2003. But in reality they will only achieve a, before tax, increase of $.62 or $0.52 for two years. In reality the average NWA AMT will only see an approximate 0.08% increase per year for 2002 and 2003 rather then the 3% for 2002 and 3% for 2003. This is just another example of AMFA “IRON CLAD LANGUAGE such as seniority protection, lay off and farm out protection.
Name: The Technician
Date: Friday, September 13, 2002
Time: 11:16 PM
Comments
When is a raise not a raise? In May of 2002 AMFA delivered the 3% negotiated raise for the NWA Technicians. Their base wage rose from $28.00 to $28.84 with the total compensation for an average NWA AMT set at $33.79 per hour. The pay raise is an additional $67.20, before taxes, per pay period . This equates to a monthly, pre tax ,increase of $134.40 per month or an annual, before tax, increase of $1,747.20. Their raise WILL BE SHORT LIVED and will still placed the average NWA Technician $1.12 behind the average UAL Technician. This equates to the average NWA technician NOT receiving $89.60, before tax, per pay period. To carry this a little further the average UAL mechanic is paid an extra $179.20, before tax, per month or $2329.60, before tax, per year. Now comes the tricky part! When AMFA negotiated the last contract they allowed a huge hole to exist in their contract concerning medical benefits. AMFA did not negotiate any caps or language to keep the company from unilaterally increasing the medical costs. On Tuesday September 10, 2002 NWA announced that beginning in January 2003 all Technicians and Related employees would have to start paying 20% of their medical costs. Prior to this the company paid the premiums. The vast majority of NWA Technicians are enrolled in the managed-care and preferred-provider programs, Technicians who enroll in those two plans for 2003 will have to pay 20 percent of the premium costs. Next year a single person in the managed-care program would pay a monthly premium of $58. The family payment would be $174. In the preferred-provider program, a single person would pay $61 a month and a family would pay $191. A Technician’s family who selects the $174, per month medical plan, will take a pay cut next year of $.0.24 per hour. A technician’s family who selects the $191, power month, medical plan will lose $0.35 per hour less than his 2002 earnings. This move by the company not only negates the pay increase ,but caused a NWATechnician to see his monthly , before tax, income to be reduced by between $38.40 to $56 per month or $499.20 or $728 , before tax, per year. This means that every Technician at NWA will be paid less money for the first five month of 2003 then they were paid in 2001,when they signed the agreement. The average NWA Technicians should have seen their income increased by $1.70 per hour in May 2003. But in reality they will only achieve a, before tax, increase of $.62 or $0.52 for two years. In reality the average NWA AMT will only see an approximate 0.08% increase per year for 2002 and 2003 rather then the 3% for 2002 and 3% for 2003. This is just another example of AMFA “IRON CLAD LANGUAGE such as seniority protection, lay off and farm out protection.