Once again, management would like to prevent CWA from fully reporting information to the passenger service employees... CWA UPDATE
We seem to be stuck in a “Groundhog Day†movie with US Airways management – every discussion covers the same territory: the poor state of the airline, inability to compete against other airlines, hard-working management burdened by an excessive employee cost structure, the need to make further cuts. And, most important, management always objects to the feedback reports and updates we send out to our members.
As you remember, we had a confrontation with management this summer regarding the feedback report we sent our members after the first “Labor Advisory Committee†meeting. At that time we reported, accurately, that US Airways executives outlined each and every US Airways employee salary or benefit that was, in their opinion, better than another carrier and therefore an “excessive cost†to US Airways. We reported that it looked like they were preparing for round three of concessions demands. Management said we should not have told that to the employees; we should have kept it “confidential.â€
We are willing to have any discussions management wants to have, and have always pledged to keep their legitimate business secrets from their competitors, but we are not willing to allow management to censor the information our members receive and keep the employees in the dark about management’s intentions regarding concessions or any other employment conditions.
Now management has presented us with another confidentiality statement. If signed, this statement would allow management to define what information is to be kept from the employees, restrict our rights to request information from anyone other than two specified VP’s, and allow management to take the union to court to enforce their secrecy rules. Employees would be kept in the dark.
We have not signed this document and instead we will propose a normal, sensible confidentiality statement that restates our position: we will not reveal any non-public business confidential data that would aid a competitor. We believe confidentiality should be aimed at the competitor airlines, not at US Airways employees.
