Teamsters mute on A&P work being lost at UAL!

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More A&P jobs lost, and not 1 word from the ibt!!!! This is straight from the company monthly publication "United World", May 2013.



[font="Tahoma""]APUs– to run or not to run?[/font]

[font="Arial""]ORD spends $12 million in fuel and maintenance per year to run the auxiliary power units (APUs) that provide power on board an aircraft when the engines are shut down. Last year at ORD, we deployed Ramp Service co-workers around the airport to check for aircraft running APUs unnecessarily. When they found them, they called trained technicians to come out to the aircraft and power them down (previously, only technicians or pilots could go into the cockpit and shut down the APU). In November and December 2012, we saved about $200,000 a month by having technicians ride along with Ramp Service employees — but we knew we could do better.[/font]

[font="Arial""]As a cost-savings project, Tech Ops, Flight Ops, Safety, Fuel Efficiency and the Continuous Improvement team partnered to develop training for Ramp Service co­workers to shut down the APUs themselves. “We built training materials from scratch, so that anyone with no experience could perform the function without makingmistakes,” said Continuous Improvement Senior Manager Tarundeep Suri. Beginning in March, ORD began operating a fully functional APU team. We have seen a significant reduction in fuel burn and expect to see up to $3.5 million in annual savings at ORD alone as a result. EWR, SFO, LAX and DEN just started teams of their own. We expect IAH and IAD to start teams[/font]

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Article from United world, May 2013. Sorry for the small print..
[font="Tahoma""]APUs – to run or not to run?[/font]

[font="Arial""]ORD spends $12 million in fuel and maintenance per year to run the auxiliary power units (APUs) that provide power on board an aircraft when the engines are shut down. Last year at ORD, we deployed Ramp Service co-workers around the airport to check for aircraft running APUs unnecessarily. When they found them, they called trained technicians to come out to the aircraft and power them down (previously, only technicians or pilots could go into the cockpit and shut down the APU). In November and December 2012, we saved about $200,000 a month by having technicians ride along with Ramp Service employees — but we knew we could do better.[/font]

[font="Arial""]As a cost-savings project, Tech Ops, Flight Ops, Safety, Fuel Efficiency and the Continuous Improvement team partnered to develop training for Ramp Service co­workers to shut down the APUs themselves. “We built training materials from scratch, so that anyone with no experience could perform the function without making mistakes,” said Continuous Improvement Senior Manager Tarundeep Suri. Beginning in March, ORD began operating a fully functional APU team. We have seen a significant reduction in fuel burn and expect to see up to $3.5 million in annual savings at ORD alone as a result. EWR, SFO, LAX and DEN just started teams of their own. We expect IAH and IAD to start teams[/font]

[font="Arial""]in May. Continues on p2 »[/font]