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ATTENTION ALL FORMER AWA PILOTS !!!
STALLING & REDIRECTING
Updated 08/22/13
By now many of you have received your denial letter from the company regarding the publication of the Nicolau Award. As you can see by the response, the subject matter of the grievance has been completely avoided by management. Our protest was in regards to publishing the seniority list, ie. Nicolau Award, as agreed to in our current CBA under Section 22. This list should have been distributed to all former AWA Pilots, along with the current West seniority list, that we use under separate CBA’s from the East. There is NO MENTION OR REQUEST for implementation of this list in our filed grievance. Obviously, senior management is stalling and redirecting the subject matter. As has been previously noted, the courts will decide the implementation issue. With the potential of an upcoming merger with American Airlines, we need an accurate and updated Nicolau Seniority List to verify correct data and our placement on THAT list, which is the only official, federally binding arbitrated seniority list for ALL US AIRWAYS PILOTS!
Please refer to Section 22 of our CBA regarding the next step in this grievance process. We will move on to the appeal phase, where we will contest to company’s denial, not only because it is an agreed upon condition of our current CBA, but also, that the company has NOT EVEN ANSWERED THE ORIGINAL GRIEVANCE. Once again, the company needs to PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE THE UPDATED ( AS OF JULY 1, 2013 ) NICOLAU SENIORITY LIST.
An appeal letter will be posted on this website within the next 24 hours. Feel free to use this as your response if you so choose, or you may compose your own. Please refer to Section 22, paragraph C.2 for the information required in your appeal letter. In the appeal process, all individual appeal letters will be handled together, as a class of affected pilots, to be decided by an arbitrator. This treatment gives all pilots whose protest were denied a strength in numbers; you will not be singled out.
As individual Pilots, we have 15 days, from receipt of your denial letter, to send in your appeal letters to the Chief Pilot, VP of Labor Relations, and USAPA Grievance Committee. Mailing addresses are listed below. Please send all copies via certified US mail, return receipt requested.
No where in our CBA, does the company get relief from the time limitations set forth in this process. It IS NOT reliant on whether there is a merger taking place or not. There are no time extensions granted to the company “because they are busy”. Failure to act upon these grievances by the company and USAPA, in the allotted contractual time frame, is grounds for a DFR lawsuit.
And more to that point, it is disturbing to note that to our knowledge, our grievance committee has not contacted, via letter, text or voice, any pilot who has filed this grievance. By doing nothing, they have left protesting pilots stranded. A failure to represent protesting pilots is another possible avenue for DFR litigation against both the company and USAPA, if they continue to fail to follow the contractual process.
Please check back on the nicisthenic.com within 24 hours for a useable appeal letter.
YOUR CAREERS MAY DEPEND ON IT !
