Cwa Us Airways Update 10/28/04 -

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10/28/2004
CWA'ers met Wednesday to plan their response to management's demand for $136 million in passenger service cuts annually through the year 2011, including a pay reduction of 34%...
After meeting with management on Tuesday to get clarification and explanations of their proposals, CWA'ers met Wednesday to plan their response and strategy and to draw up a counter proposal.
At the Tuesday meeting with management, CWA'ers made it clear to management that their demands on the lower paid employees - passenger service - are unfair and extreme. The 34% pay cut alone (our earlier 29% estimate did not include effects of dropping four pay steps) will drive many individuals and families into financial ruin. CWA'ers at the bargaining table pointed out the great discrepancy between the pay cut management is demanding of passenger service (34%) and the 5% pay cut they say management will contribute.
The CWA'ers pointed out that nobody can imagine the passenger service employees ratifying such a proposal. Nobody in management seriously disagreed with our point. That leads us to conclude management expects the bankruptcy court to impose their demands without a vote of the employees.
The goal of the CWA negotiating team is to reach a fair agreement that agents can ratify, an agreement that maintains our pay and our standard of living.
CWA local presidents have sent a mailing to each member's home address explaining our current situation and asking for your strong support as we move forward. Please review your materials and vote your support to protect our contract, our careers and our standard of living.




Bankruptcy proceeding establishes the Retirees Committee...
There are five representatives on the committee, one each representing AFA, CWA and ALPA retirees, and two for non-union represented employees. CWA retirees' rep is Judy Dreyer. Judith Schmidt is from AFA, Tom Davis from ALPA, and Gerard Carusi. The judge declined to set up a timetable, but ordered the committee to meet with US Airways within three business days. All the committee members were at the hearing this morning, and they said that they would meet this afternoon to begin selecting professional representatives.


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Soi management is starting high-34 % so they have room to negotiate, and if they come down to 25% they can say they are negotiatiing in good faith. Don't you think that is probably their strategy???? They can't really expect people to accept that amount.
 
Seems as if they want more from our group than any others. Didnt all the other agreements come with less than 20% pay cut? We must not be worth much to them. But that's something we knew all along... :(
 
WestCoastGuy said:
Seems as if they want more from our group than any others. Didnt all the other agreements come with less than 20% pay cut? We must not be worth much to them. But that's something we knew all along... :(
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They want to eliminate a majority of the Maintenance Department.
With that being said I will not vote to give up anything!

And while I'm at it A320LAP_PUPPY can Kiss My Xss
 
If there stradegy at the company is to high ball us with 34 % to try to fool us into taking 25 % paycuts until the year 2011, I think they are very foolish....

Do you know what you were paying for your gallon of gasoline in 1997 (7 years ago) ?...

The price according to the AAA was about $1.00 a gallon for unleaded and $1.27 for premium in 1997......yikes!

Who knows what you'll be paying for your gallon of gasoline for your car in the year 2011...Could it be $4.00 a gallon...$5.00 a gallon....


21 % forced down our throats, at a time when the cost of living is rising is horrible.......

For one thing that is a way out of line time frame, going out 7 years...when things in this business can drasticlly change in only 1 or 2 years.....

I think the idea of a STRIKE has to be in the cards, if the company "continues" ... to not bargain in "good faith" with their outlandish wishes....

This is just more of the same "no bargaining...take it or leave it" tactics that this union busting company continues with.....

Its time for the CWA to gives the members some options...a vote or an action.....something...
 
IMO the company WILL not come down from their demands. Lets face it we the CWA group do not have much more that we can give. Also as one poster stated look for management to have Mitchell make that choice and also request that Mitchell disallow any "self help".
 
You're probably right about that one. They'll just let the judge speak for them. They have all their eggs in one basket now for transforming this airline...all on the back of labor. They dont want to work WITH labor in getting cost cutting measures...they just want a take it or leave it and out the door with ya! Couldnt even take the 21% cut the judge gave em til Feb...gotta grab more now.