CWA part-timers pay dues also?

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The IBT-CWA Passenger Service Association bargaining team met with US Airways management in Charlotte, NC on December 20, 2006.

HOURS OF SERVICE -PART-TIME CAPS-The IBT-CWA Association reviewed the Companies counter-proposal. During our discussion, Ron Harbinson advised us that they heard us loud and clear in our last meeting about our fears of having 3 Eight (8) hour days for Part-Time in the Airports. The Company dropped it from their proposal; therefore they did not bring an example of mock schedules showing how they would utilize those type of shifts in PHL or BOS, as was originally requested by the Union. The Part-Time cap at the Airports is now off the table, the Company did not want to drop the Part-Time cap below 65% for the ATO’s, the Union felt there was a need for a lower Part-Time cap at the ATO’S, in order to protect Full-Time careers. The 4 Ten-hour days for FT, which is already in our contract and 4 -Four, Five and Six- hour days for PT are still on the table for the ATO’s and RES, with the understanding they would be utilized based on the needs of service.

The Company did propose 3 Eight-hour days for Part-Time at the Reservations centers, both East and West, with a 30% PT cap, calculated on a system-wide basis. Right now there is no cap on PT in RES so the company is free to increase the PT numbers any way they want to without a cap. The Association agreed, based on the RES feedback in our meetings, to the 3 eight-hour days for PT in the 3 Reservation Centers, if the Company utilizes the 3 eight hour PT shifts on weekends only, Fri-Sun or Sat-Mon, which would allow more weekends off for the employees not working the 3 eight-hour PT shifts. Brad Beakley, Vice President, Reservations and Inventory Services, has advised the Union RES leaders in previous meetings, that he would like to achieve up to 1,400 RES employees in INT RES, right now there are approximately 800 in INT RES and some of those jobs would come from in-sourcing approximately 400 more RES jobs from the outsourced locations. The Association did request that twice a year, the Union be allowed to have a sub-committee monitor the CAP in the RES centers.