Sent by Council 66 AFA
In addition to announcing a $34 million first quarter profit
yesterday, management announced in a press release a sweeping
new customer service initiative that they hope will address the
myriad of problems that flight attendants and passengers have
reported to the company regarding recent and on going service
failures. From hiring more customer service agents at airports
across the system to increasing the quality and quantity of Buy
on Board; management announced promises to win back the loyalty
of passengers by making enhancements to the inflight experience.
However, the employees of US Airways know the real story.
Management is big on promises and short on delivery. Management
must wake up to the fact that this merger and airline will never
live up to its full potential until employees and passengers are
treated as assets rather than liabilities and until new labor
contracts are fairly negotiated and completed. In the meantime,
this customer service initiative will likely fall into the
bulging trash heap of previous failed management promises and be
worth little more than the paper it was written upon.
If management is serious about fixing the problems that they
have created the need to negotiate a labor contract that
addresses the needs of our membership. No more sub-standard
management proposals. No more attacks on Benefits and FMLA. No
more violating our current contracts in the name of synergy. It
time to turn up the volume on Flight Attendant frustration.
US Airways Labor Coalition Picket and Protest
US Airways' Doug Parker will be a panelist and join other CEO's
and senior executives of American, Spirit, Hawaiian, Virgin
Atlantic, STAR Alliance, British Airways, jetBlue, Boeing and
Airbus for the 16th Annual Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Aviation
Symposium's "Aviation 2007- In Search of New Strategies for
Success", May 8-10, 2007, held at the Biltmore Resort in
Phoenix.
US Airways Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of
Flight Attendants-CWA, and Pilots, represented by the Air Line
Pilots Association, as well as other labor groups will join in
solidarity and protest what employees have dubbed the "US
Airways Strategy for Disaster-Continued Failure to Deal with
Labor Concerns". The protest will be held in conjunction with
the aviation symposium event.
Mark your calendars for May 8 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm and join
your fellow brothers and sisters at ALPA, AFA-CWA, and other
groups as labor unites for "Frustration and Fury II"- A Labor
Coalition Picket and Protest.
We are requesting you wear white shirts with blue pants/jeans.
We have arranged bus transportation for all participants from
the staging area at Harkins Arcadia Movie Theatre, 40th Street
and Thomas Roads. The first bus will depart the parking lot to
our picket location at 10:50am. Stay tuned for upcoming hotlines
with further information.
In addition to announcing a $34 million first quarter profit
yesterday, management announced in a press release a sweeping
new customer service initiative that they hope will address the
myriad of problems that flight attendants and passengers have
reported to the company regarding recent and on going service
failures. From hiring more customer service agents at airports
across the system to increasing the quality and quantity of Buy
on Board; management announced promises to win back the loyalty
of passengers by making enhancements to the inflight experience.
However, the employees of US Airways know the real story.
Management is big on promises and short on delivery. Management
must wake up to the fact that this merger and airline will never
live up to its full potential until employees and passengers are
treated as assets rather than liabilities and until new labor
contracts are fairly negotiated and completed. In the meantime,
this customer service initiative will likely fall into the
bulging trash heap of previous failed management promises and be
worth little more than the paper it was written upon.
If management is serious about fixing the problems that they
have created the need to negotiate a labor contract that
addresses the needs of our membership. No more sub-standard
management proposals. No more attacks on Benefits and FMLA. No
more violating our current contracts in the name of synergy. It
time to turn up the volume on Flight Attendant frustration.
US Airways Labor Coalition Picket and Protest
US Airways' Doug Parker will be a panelist and join other CEO's
and senior executives of American, Spirit, Hawaiian, Virgin
Atlantic, STAR Alliance, British Airways, jetBlue, Boeing and
Airbus for the 16th Annual Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Aviation
Symposium's "Aviation 2007- In Search of New Strategies for
Success", May 8-10, 2007, held at the Biltmore Resort in
Phoenix.
US Airways Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of
Flight Attendants-CWA, and Pilots, represented by the Air Line
Pilots Association, as well as other labor groups will join in
solidarity and protest what employees have dubbed the "US
Airways Strategy for Disaster-Continued Failure to Deal with
Labor Concerns". The protest will be held in conjunction with
the aviation symposium event.
Mark your calendars for May 8 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm and join
your fellow brothers and sisters at ALPA, AFA-CWA, and other
groups as labor unites for "Frustration and Fury II"- A Labor
Coalition Picket and Protest.
We are requesting you wear white shirts with blue pants/jeans.
We have arranged bus transportation for all participants from
the staging area at Harkins Arcadia Movie Theatre, 40th Street
and Thomas Roads. The first bus will depart the parking lot to
our picket location at 10:50am. Stay tuned for upcoming hotlines
with further information.
