US Airways and ALPA are close to obtaining a tentative agreement.
After discussing the issue with other informed people, it appears yesterday's ALPA proposal provides a retirement plan similar to America West. America West has a 7% company contribution plus a 3% match, for a total company contribution of 10% with the employee adding 3%. ALPA’s proposal provides for the company to provide a 10% contribution applied to total gross earnings. Either way the company will provide 10% of a pilot’s total earnings.
Major differences between the most recent company and ALPA’s September 28 proposal are:
ALPA - 17.5% pay cut versus Company proposal of a 16.5% pay cut.
ALPA - 21 days vacation versus Company proposal of 28 days.
ALPA - no vacation flyback and the Company one-week of vacation flyback.
ALPA – Company to pay for pre-petition DC Plan payments and DC Plan notional monies, which are not included in the company’s last proposal to the pilot group.
Scope with some items remaining that the company took out of the current contract on September 10.
90-seat RJ - EMB-190/195 & CRJ-900 not included in ALPA’s proposal and included in company’s proposal. With the 279 minimum fleet count gone, the 90-seat RJ is a major threat to mainline flying/jobs.
Meanwhile, the will be a special MEC Meeting in CLT, at the Marriott Executive Park (same hotel as last week), starting at 10am Sep 30 & concluding on Friday, Oct 1. Agenda is a Negotiating Committee update.
Regards,
USA320Pilot
After discussing the issue with other informed people, it appears yesterday's ALPA proposal provides a retirement plan similar to America West. America West has a 7% company contribution plus a 3% match, for a total company contribution of 10% with the employee adding 3%. ALPA’s proposal provides for the company to provide a 10% contribution applied to total gross earnings. Either way the company will provide 10% of a pilot’s total earnings.
Major differences between the most recent company and ALPA’s September 28 proposal are:
ALPA - 17.5% pay cut versus Company proposal of a 16.5% pay cut.
ALPA - 21 days vacation versus Company proposal of 28 days.
ALPA - no vacation flyback and the Company one-week of vacation flyback.
ALPA – Company to pay for pre-petition DC Plan payments and DC Plan notional monies, which are not included in the company’s last proposal to the pilot group.
Scope with some items remaining that the company took out of the current contract on September 10.
90-seat RJ - EMB-190/195 & CRJ-900 not included in ALPA’s proposal and included in company’s proposal. With the 279 minimum fleet count gone, the 90-seat RJ is a major threat to mainline flying/jobs.
Meanwhile, the will be a special MEC Meeting in CLT, at the Marriott Executive Park (same hotel as last week), starting at 10am Sep 30 & concluding on Friday, Oct 1. Agenda is a Negotiating Committee update.
Regards,
USA320Pilot