Layoffs Are Coming

[acmech]

Here come the layoffs folks. It happened last night at BWI. Could your station be next? :angry: :down:

 

[barbeetantrums]

Here come the layoffs folks. It happened last night at BWI. Could your station be next? :angry: :down:

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Who got laid off? 😱

 

[Phantom Fixer]

Would anyone care to shed some light on this subject?

Lets hope the shinanigans aren't already starting. <_<

 

[LUV2FLYHIGH]

WHAT THE %^&*!!!! :rant:

NO, NO, NO, please say it aint so!!!!

THIS IS NOT GOOD PEOPLE!! :down:

 

[Fly]

ut ohhhhh!!!!

 

[acmech]

Some of the ircraft mechanics got their notices last night.

 

[Phantom Fixer]

Some of the ircraft mechanics got their notices last night.

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Wow...That's not pleasant news at all.

I wondered how things would work out where HP and US both have maintenance?

I knew BWI would be a concern for both side...and then we have the issue in LAX too.

Does anyone know of any other overlaps from the maintenance perspective?

 

[MOC A320]

Here come the layoffs folks. It happened last night at BWI. Could your station be next? :angry: :down:

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Talked to a tech in BWI and he said staffing is going down from 14 techs to 8 techs. They got till sometime around Oct 20th.

The reason was that the company pulled the A check out of BWI. :down:

 

[acmech]

:angry: The company is not giving a valid reason to the techs at BWI. Most people think it is the result of the pending merger. That the company wants to start thinning out the employees on the America West side in order to keep the US folks a little happier. This is just the beginning folks. More layoffs will come, and more stations staffed by AWA employees will be closed or scaled back.

So why is it that the acquiring carrier's employees and their families have to suffer? :angry: :angry: :down: :down: :down: :down: Way to go Doug Parker.

 

[SegmentKing]

while we're all not yet family, I wish that they would at least allow you to transfer to USAirways maintenance or engineering & maintain your DOH/Seniority...

🙁 🙁

Sorry to hear about this happening...

 

[Phantom Fixer]

:angry: The company is not giving a valid reason to the techs at BWI. Most people think it is the result of the pending merger. That the company wants to start thinning out the employees on the America West side in order to keep the US folks a little happier. This is just the beginning folks. More layoffs will come, and more stations staffed by AWA employees will be closed or scaled back.

So why is it that the acquiring carrier's employees and their families have to suffer? :angry:  :angry:  :down:  :down:  :down:  :down:  Way to go Doug Parker.

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acmech,

That's a pretty snappy judgement you are rendering there Bud.
If an A-Check is lost....loss of manpower usually goes along with it. Sad but true.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see U lose positions on the west coast in light of things , a Tit for Tat situation if you will?

U is going to loose a lot of jobs in relation to duplication of job discriptions in the combined company..then again thier will be a good bit of natural attrition due to people not being willing to move to a new location (PHX) for the combined company.

I see and hear people saying all the time that PHX or LAS is not an option for them....and we are going to be losing our Operations Center in PIT at some point...a Corporate HQ in DCA/CCY....and likely a lot of people on the Material services side too.

Lots of people are simply tired of chasing their job at U...and its been exactly that for a lot of folks that have survived to this point. I know many people whom have been bumped out of CLT , then end up in PIT...then bumped out again to PHL within a span of a year...that my man tends to wear on people.

To jump up and say that HP's people are going to bare all the pain is simply not true. Trust me...thier is pain enough to spare for everyone in this industry...and nobody has it any better or any worse in this merger scenario.

 

[etops1]

and stop saying that hp is aquiring us. no one is aquiring anybody. it's a merger. yes the hp management is the surviving managemnt (thank god) and yes hq's moves to tempe. but no one is aquiring anyone. we are simply getting married to create one big happy family.

 

[Breath_of_Fresh_USAirways]

:disguise:
The techs in BWI knew this was coming -- HP is not doing as many checks in BWI as it used to -- the 757's are being modified for ETOPS and are moving to the Hawaii routes and HP won't have as many RON in BWI anymore -- It's not related to the merger -- and the techs were offered other positions -- but, yes, they'd have to move...

:eye:

 

[luvn737s]

:disguise:
The techs in BWI knew this was coming -- HP is not doing as many checks in BWI as it used to -- the 757's are being modified for ETOPS and are moving to the Hawaii routes and HP won't have as many RON in BWI anymore -- It's not related to the merger -- and the techs were offered other positions -- but, yes, they'd have to move...

:eye:

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If the company downsizes your job, do they have to pay your move or are you told that's why toolboxes have wheels?

 

[PHX-F/A]

:disguise:
The techs in BWI knew this was coming -- HP is not doing as many checks in BWI as it used to -- the 757's are being modified for ETOPS and are moving to the Hawaii routes and HP won't have as many RON in BWI anymore -- It's not related to the merger -- and the techs were offered other positions -- but, yes, they'd have to move...

:eye:

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BWI became an MX city around 99, or 2000. It was after that dismal summer that we had all kind of ops problems. They decided that too much MX had been asigned to PHX, so they made BWI the 757 specialist, CMH the Airbus specialist, and SNA the 737 specialist. It took quite a load off of PHX and LAS.

CMH closed as a hub, so I'm not sure how much of that old program was in place before they announced the merger. But with the merger, "the handwritting was on the wall"