Merger Committee Introduction 7/19/05

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ALPA Merger Policy specifies 5 goals for seniority list integration. They are, in no particular order:

a. Preserve jobs.

b. Avoid windfalls to either group at the expense of the other.

c. Maintain or improve pre-merger pay and standard of living.

d. Maintain or improve pre-merger pilot status.

e. Minimize detrimental changes to career expectations.

ALPA Merger Policy makes no mention of date of hire or any other method of achieving these goals. The Merger Representatives must determine which method or combinations of methods best meet the goals. The goals all address what your seniority will buy upon integration and into the future. This is the yardstick of fairness by which any proposed method of integration must be judged.

The five goals mentioned above along with the rest of ALPA Merger Policy are available on the Merger Committee web page at usairwayspilots.org. Pilots should access this page for the latest in merger information. It will soon be possible to submit questions to the Merger Committee. This will be a great way to check out the validity of rumors you may hear on the line. Once again, we urge you to check this page often for the latest and most accurate merger information.

This process without a doubt can be divisive, both between the pilot groups and within the pilot groups. When the integration process is complete, we need to be able to move forward with one pilot group that is as unified as possible. When it is all said and done, we can become one formidable group of pilots.

When you meet America West pilots, be as welcoming as you can. Remember that the seniority list integration will not be accomplished in the jumpseat, the crewroom, web boards or the hotel van. Trust the process and trust your merger team to do the very best job we can in protecting the best interests of all US Airways pilots.
 
Gee, thanks for the pep talk...

Being as this award failed, in no particular order, on every merger policy goal except for "perserving jobs", excuse me if I am less than inclined to "trust the process".

The US Airways ALPA is 100% to blame for this, for one main reason.

The fallacy that "Midatlantic" was separate ---> that AAA ALPA signed onto and supported was the main reason for this unfair award.

IF AAA ALPA had lived up to their duty of fair representation, and treated "Midatlantic" as nothing more than a name (US Airways dba Midatlantic), in the same fashion as Metrojet or US Airways Shuttle, this would have been a totally different situation.

The fact that it was not treated as a real recall is AAA ALPA's fault. If that had been done, then the entire furloughed list would have been represented in active service, and any slotting would have more likely placed the 05 AWA newhires right next to the 05 US Airways newhires...

As it is, the unexplainable situation, in which the 04/05 US Airways newhires (referred to as Ex-CEL by the arbitrator) being placed on the list indicates that those pilots were considered to have been in ACTIVE mainline service at SOME time in the past...

How is that possible one way, but not the other...?

IMO US Airways ALPA screwed up, and screwed up bad on this one important point, and as a result ruined the careers of thousands of it's represented pilots.

Way to go ALPA.
 
IMO US Airways ALPA screwed up, and screwed up bad on this one important point, and as a result ruined the careers of thousands of it's represented pilots.

Way to go ALPA.


Nothing new here. The USAirways ALPA unit has a long history of screwing things up royally, usually as a result of arrogance displayed by the MEC officers and a senatorial majority of the MEC members.

At every turn...EVERY turn... this MEC has done exactly the wrong thing to its membership with the battle cry of "help the company now and live to fight another day." Well, in the process they have earned themselves a Sisyphean challenge. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus)

Absent some new, REAL leadership, I am not too hopeful.
 
MDA was a great scam wasnt it.Screwed everybody in it.
Classic jerry G and gang stall divert attention. The union bought into it. His group has tarnish negotiations for a long long long time

Nothing new here. The USAirways ALPA unit has a long history of screwing things up royally, usually as a result of arrogance displayed by the MEC officers and a senatorial majority of the MEC members.

At every turn...EVERY turn... this MEC has done exactly the wrong thing to its membership with the battle cry of "help the company now and live to fight another day." Well, in the process they have earned themselves a Sisyphean challenge. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus)

Absent some new, REAL leadership, I am not too hopeful.
CAN YOUR MEC FILE FOR SIGNAL CARRIER STATUS??????????
 
IMO US Airways ALPA screwed up

Finally someone gets it.




So why did the Merger Committee insist on DOH all along like AWA is saying??...hmmm or is that just hot air about them insisting on DOH?


THEY DIDN'T. They wanted to stay away from DOH but your representation DIRECTED them to proceed with DOH.

They had no choice but to move that way.

It was frustrating for our MC to even try and negotiate any aspect of the integration because these guys couldn't move to anything less than DOH.

I don't have a copy, but you can ask your MEC to see a copy of the resolution setting guidance for your MC to seek DOH and nothing less.
 
See item B, See item B, see item B. IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT US EAST MEC ASKED FOR DOH. SEE ITEM E, SEE ITEM E...


If you guys got your DOH, I would have stayed an FO for a lot longer than had we stayed AWA.

So thanks for pointing out ITEM E, ITEM E, ITEM E.

We both got hosed.
 
If you guys got your DOH, I would have stayed an FO for a lot longer than had we stayed AWA.

So thanks for pointing out ITEM E, ITEM E, ITEM E.

We both got hosed.

You sound like the same moron blabbing his mouth on the alpa national forum!
No wonder you couldn't do any better than awa!
 
You sound like the same moron blabbing his mouth on the alpa national forum!
No wonder you couldn't do any better than awa!

You sound like the rest of the cry babies on the National board.

Good comeback too there big guy!

Now go drag your knuckles elsewhere.

Moron.
 
CAN YOUR MEC FILE FOR SINGLE CARRIER STATUS??????????
Better yet can USAirways WEST MEC file for single carrier status??????
Get the point now.
http://www.nmb.gov/representation/deter2002/29n040.html
Sorry, got home late and up early in the morning


No apologies needed.

Just post in English the first time. If you're tired, go to bed and post when you get up.

Get the point?

You posted the drivel, not me.