It's time for new ALPA-MEC leadership at the top that includes the best interest of all NWA pilots...not just Bartels / McClain and friends. They have sold out just about everyone below them on the list.
The current T/A will NOT PASS. :down:
Northwest pilots may vote to recall 2 top union chiefs
Membership faces further wage cuts
April 22, 2006
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
As pilots at Northwest Airlines Inc. decide whether to ratify a wage-cutting contract, there's an effort to recall the pilots union's top two leaders.
In a message to members Thursday night, the Air Line Pilots Association said it plans to hold a special meeting Tuesday in Minneapolis to discuss recalling the chairman and vice chairman of Northwest's pilots union's top council.
Mark McClain, the pilots' chairman, was not available for comment Friday.
But Bill Bartels, ALPA's vice chairman and part of the recall, said Friday that dissatisfaction with the proposed contract prompted many of the ALPA's high-ranking officers to seek new leadership.
"It's been a long, difficult road over the last couple years and certainly the last several months," Bartels said.
Bartels also said that the special meeting next week was called to discuss other issues, including strategies in case pilots reject the contract.
Opinions have clashed, from top leaders to rank and file, about whether pilots should vote for the contract. McClain and the union's negotiating team have endorsed the contract.
Bartels, who is part of the union's top council and vice chairman of the local union in Detroit, spoke out against the deal in presentations to Detroit-based pilots.
Despite their differing opinions, ALPA officers want both Bartels and McClain ousted because they're part of the same ticket. "The leadership team is not what they want anymore," Bartels said.
Pilots have until May 3 to vote on a concessionary contract that would save the airline about $360 million.
The proposed contract includes:
• Continuing a temporary 24% pay cut pilots took in November
• Raises of 1.5% in 2008 through 2010 and 2% in 2011
• Increases in the maximum hours a pilot can fly an aircraft
• Reduction in sick pay
• A 5% match of pilot contributions to a new 401(k)-style retirement plan and a contribution increase to 8% by 2011.
Northwest filed for bankruptcy protection Sept. 14, citing soaring jet fuel costs, high labor costs and competition from low-cost carriers. It seeks to cut $1.4 billion annually from its labor costs.
The current T/A will NOT PASS. :down:
Northwest pilots may vote to recall 2 top union chiefs
Membership faces further wage cuts
April 22, 2006
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
As pilots at Northwest Airlines Inc. decide whether to ratify a wage-cutting contract, there's an effort to recall the pilots union's top two leaders.
In a message to members Thursday night, the Air Line Pilots Association said it plans to hold a special meeting Tuesday in Minneapolis to discuss recalling the chairman and vice chairman of Northwest's pilots union's top council.
Mark McClain, the pilots' chairman, was not available for comment Friday.
But Bill Bartels, ALPA's vice chairman and part of the recall, said Friday that dissatisfaction with the proposed contract prompted many of the ALPA's high-ranking officers to seek new leadership.
"It's been a long, difficult road over the last couple years and certainly the last several months," Bartels said.
Bartels also said that the special meeting next week was called to discuss other issues, including strategies in case pilots reject the contract.
Opinions have clashed, from top leaders to rank and file, about whether pilots should vote for the contract. McClain and the union's negotiating team have endorsed the contract.
Bartels, who is part of the union's top council and vice chairman of the local union in Detroit, spoke out against the deal in presentations to Detroit-based pilots.
Despite their differing opinions, ALPA officers want both Bartels and McClain ousted because they're part of the same ticket. "The leadership team is not what they want anymore," Bartels said.
Pilots have until May 3 to vote on a concessionary contract that would save the airline about $360 million.
The proposed contract includes:
• Continuing a temporary 24% pay cut pilots took in November
• Raises of 1.5% in 2008 through 2010 and 2% in 2011
• Increases in the maximum hours a pilot can fly an aircraft
• Reduction in sick pay
• A 5% match of pilot contributions to a new 401(k)-style retirement plan and a contribution increase to 8% by 2011.
Northwest filed for bankruptcy protection Sept. 14, citing soaring jet fuel costs, high labor costs and competition from low-cost carriers. It seeks to cut $1.4 billion annually from its labor costs.
