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Special MEC Hotline - September 12, 2005
From: JR Baker, AWA MEC Chairman
To: All AWA Pilots
During today's Special MEC Meeting, your MEC voted in favor of accepting a draft of the final Transition Agreement that protects the flying and aircraft of our pilots and those at US Airways during the operational integration of the two airlines. The final document is to be presented to the AWA MEC during Friday's meeting.
The Transition Agreement provides that the pilots at America West and US Airways will remain separate and covered by our own individual collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) until the operations are merged, which entails an integrated seniority list and negotiation of a single CBA.
Additional highlights of the agreement include:
- preservation of EMB 190 flying for mainline pilots;
- profit sharing program for both pilot groups;
- terms for company acceptance of the merged seniority list;
- terms and methods for negotiating a single contract;
- preservation of the AWA amendable and contract opener dates;
- terms for hiring furloughed US Airways pilots at America West Airlines;
- terms for protecting pilots during training to the new FAA certificate;
- $300,000 for each pilot group to reduce pilot contributions to merger-related expenses;
- additional FPL for the AWA MEC to harmonize with the AAA MEC; and
- language to ensure that single contract talks start within 60-90 days.
While we are disappointed that we did not address specific pay harmonization and "no furlough" protections in this agreement, there are several non-economic issues that we were successful in achieving. And we will tenaciously pursue the open economic and benefits issues when we enter into talks to merge the two agreements. This Transition Agreement will serve as a foundation as we work toward achieving those goals.
In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of your Negotiating Committee who tirelessly worked to bring an acceptable agreement to your MEC. They set forth to protect the careers of each and every one of us and will continue to do so as we move forward to combining our pilot groups.
Regards,
USA320Pilot
From: JR Baker, AWA MEC Chairman
To: All AWA Pilots
During today's Special MEC Meeting, your MEC voted in favor of accepting a draft of the final Transition Agreement that protects the flying and aircraft of our pilots and those at US Airways during the operational integration of the two airlines. The final document is to be presented to the AWA MEC during Friday's meeting.
The Transition Agreement provides that the pilots at America West and US Airways will remain separate and covered by our own individual collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) until the operations are merged, which entails an integrated seniority list and negotiation of a single CBA.
Additional highlights of the agreement include:
- preservation of EMB 190 flying for mainline pilots;
- profit sharing program for both pilot groups;
- terms for company acceptance of the merged seniority list;
- terms and methods for negotiating a single contract;
- preservation of the AWA amendable and contract opener dates;
- terms for hiring furloughed US Airways pilots at America West Airlines;
- terms for protecting pilots during training to the new FAA certificate;
- $300,000 for each pilot group to reduce pilot contributions to merger-related expenses;
- additional FPL for the AWA MEC to harmonize with the AAA MEC; and
- language to ensure that single contract talks start within 60-90 days.
While we are disappointed that we did not address specific pay harmonization and "no furlough" protections in this agreement, there are several non-economic issues that we were successful in achieving. And we will tenaciously pursue the open economic and benefits issues when we enter into talks to merge the two agreements. This Transition Agreement will serve as a foundation as we work toward achieving those goals.
In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of your Negotiating Committee who tirelessly worked to bring an acceptable agreement to your MEC. They set forth to protect the careers of each and every one of us and will continue to do so as we move forward to combining our pilot groups.
Regards,
USA320Pilot