Temporary Injunction against USAPA filed today
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Iclubbabyseals
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Actually, I do. As the "west" is quite a bit less than "30,000", your comment is inaccurate on it's face. Have a good day looking for another job.
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Seriously? Are you that dense?
Years of data show where the op should be. There is no disputing the data.
And ask the APA about sick time and "earned benefit." Ya, not so good.
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US Airways Sues Pilot Union to Halt Alleged Illegal Slowdown on East Coast
James Ray, a spokesman for the union, didn’t immediatelyreturn a call for comment on the filing.
In February 1999, American Airlines pilots called in sickover 11 days to protest plans to add pilots from Reno Air Inc.to their seniority list. American was forced to cancel 6,600flights, costing parent AMR Corp. $250 million and snarling U.S.air traffic. A federal judge later ordered the Allied Pilots Association to pay American $45.5 million in damages.
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US Airways Sues Pilots Union Over Flight Delays
CHICAGO (WSJ.com) - US Airways Group Inc. said it brought suit Friday against the US Airline Pilots Association in a bid to block what the company alleges is an illegal job-action campaign by the union that represents its 5,200 pilots.
The Tempe, Ariz., carrier, which has been dealing with severe pilot frictions since a 2005 merger that combined the old US Airways with America West Airlines, said it has "overwhelming evidence of illegal activity" by the union. US Airways asked a federal court in Charlotte, N.C., where the airline has a hub and the union is based, to grant an injunction to block the alleged work slowdown.
A spokesman for the US Airline Pilots Association said late Friday that the union was studying the lawsuit and had no immediate reaction. The union has publicly alleged that the carrier is forcing its pilots to fly in unsafe aircraft and has called for flight safety executives at the airline to be removed.
In a memo to employees on Friday, Doug Parker, US Airways's chief executive, alleged that the union leadership is encouraging its members to taxi slowly at airports to arrive 16 minutes late, thus missing the government's 15-minute window for on-time arrivals and causing passenger and baggage misconnections. Mr. Park also said the union is encouraging members to slow down their online training so that flights will be canceled and to write up non-critical maintenance items just before departure to cause flight delays.
Further, he said, the union leadership is intimidating and retaliating against members who don't cooperate with the slowdown. He said the lawsuit isn't aimed at individual pilots but at the union and its leadership.
Wildcat job activities are illegal under federal laws. If the union is found to be encouraging the alleged behavior, the court could enter an injunction. If the alleged activities continued, the union could be found liable for damages.
The pilots from the old US Airways and old America West have been fighting for years over a way to merge their seniority list, and many are unhappy with the method selected by an arbitrator.
Many US Airways pilots, a larger and more senior group, felt the fewer and junior America West pilots were going to gain at their expense if that seniority method was put into place. The two groups have been fighting ever since, and thus have never been able to jointly negotiate a new labor contract with US Airways. The US Airways pilots were numerous enough to boot out the former union and install the independent USAPA, leaving the American West pilots feeling relatively disenfranchised.
US Airways at one point offered the warring groups a single contract that would raise its costs by $120 million a year. But the pilots' dispute has stalled contract negotiations for years while the seniority-integration issue remained center stage. Meantime, both groups are working under concessionary labor contracts struck early in the last decade after 9/11 sunk the industry into severe financial distress.
Write to Susan Carey at susan.carey@wsj.com
James Ray, a spokesman for the union, didn’t immediatelyreturn a call for comment on the filing.
In February 1999, American Airlines pilots called in sickover 11 days to protest plans to add pilots from Reno Air Inc.to their seniority list. American was forced to cancel 6,600flights, costing parent AMR Corp. $250 million and snarling U.S.air traffic. A federal judge later ordered the Allied Pilots Association to pay American $45.5 million in damages.
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US Airways Sues Pilots Union Over Flight Delays
CHICAGO (WSJ.com) - US Airways Group Inc. said it brought suit Friday against the US Airline Pilots Association in a bid to block what the company alleges is an illegal job-action campaign by the union that represents its 5,200 pilots.
The Tempe, Ariz., carrier, which has been dealing with severe pilot frictions since a 2005 merger that combined the old US Airways with America West Airlines, said it has "overwhelming evidence of illegal activity" by the union. US Airways asked a federal court in Charlotte, N.C., where the airline has a hub and the union is based, to grant an injunction to block the alleged work slowdown.
A spokesman for the US Airline Pilots Association said late Friday that the union was studying the lawsuit and had no immediate reaction. The union has publicly alleged that the carrier is forcing its pilots to fly in unsafe aircraft and has called for flight safety executives at the airline to be removed.
In a memo to employees on Friday, Doug Parker, US Airways's chief executive, alleged that the union leadership is encouraging its members to taxi slowly at airports to arrive 16 minutes late, thus missing the government's 15-minute window for on-time arrivals and causing passenger and baggage misconnections. Mr. Park also said the union is encouraging members to slow down their online training so that flights will be canceled and to write up non-critical maintenance items just before departure to cause flight delays.
Further, he said, the union leadership is intimidating and retaliating against members who don't cooperate with the slowdown. He said the lawsuit isn't aimed at individual pilots but at the union and its leadership.
Wildcat job activities are illegal under federal laws. If the union is found to be encouraging the alleged behavior, the court could enter an injunction. If the alleged activities continued, the union could be found liable for damages.
The pilots from the old US Airways and old America West have been fighting for years over a way to merge their seniority list, and many are unhappy with the method selected by an arbitrator.
Many US Airways pilots, a larger and more senior group, felt the fewer and junior America West pilots were going to gain at their expense if that seniority method was put into place. The two groups have been fighting ever since, and thus have never been able to jointly negotiate a new labor contract with US Airways. The US Airways pilots were numerous enough to boot out the former union and install the independent USAPA, leaving the American West pilots feeling relatively disenfranchised.
US Airways at one point offered the warring groups a single contract that would raise its costs by $120 million a year. But the pilots' dispute has stalled contract negotiations for years while the seniority-integration issue remained center stage. Meantime, both groups are working under concessionary labor contracts struck early in the last decade after 9/11 sunk the industry into severe financial distress.
Write to Susan Carey at susan.carey@wsj.com
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Oh, I miss ALAP. If ALAP were still here they would make us all feel comfortable by telling us about all the things they are speculating about that we should be afraid of today. The future would be so uncertain and full of dark clouds.. just like old times. Can you give them a call and see if they are willing to come back to tell us scary stories?
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USAPA is dead!
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Speaking of ALPA, why hasn't USAPA put out anything regarding their HUGE loss to the TWA pilots?
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who is "you Guys"?
And actually American History is full of situations where unions caused the demise of entire companies and in one an industry. Ever hear of Frank Lorenzo and an Airline named Eastern? Braniff too IIRC
Then we have the entire US steel industry done in by Clause 2b in the 1959 contract that made it impossible for the mills to compete and pay the staggering pension benefits and Bethlehem, LTV, and several other companies are no more.
I'm not even going to engage you your troll bait comment regarding the merger and who bought whom. 😀 😀 😀 I've observed your species in its natural habitat. Keep fanning the flames and because of people like you strengthen the Unions resolve don't be surprised if you start hearing "Full Pay to the Last Day"
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The east pilots can, and have, cost tempe ten times that. A pittance. They can cost tempe much more. Bring it on.
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Well, if the USAPA mouthpieces on this board are any measure, they are the most stupid gang of thugs out there. They just keep shooting off toes.
I had the pleasure of being on a wonderful 20 minute long taxi back to the gate in PHX in May on an east plane. About 9:30 at night, barely any flights coming in or out.
I could have walked to the gate faster, all the pax were pissed off.
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That's absolutey INSANE .....
i may not like what USAPA has done in the past , i think their public campagain has gone too far , but i certainly don't want to see their union destroyed ...
Do i think an injunction was necessary and called for ? yes , USAPA was out of control .... but 400 million is ludicrious ... fine them a million dollars and lawyers fee's but 400 million ? someone at CHQ is smoking some really bad crack ...
400 million would put the pilots groups collective backs up against the wall , and when you have nowhere else to run , you can only do one thing , and that's fight ....
give them a way out , and their foolish leadership may take a lesson away from this ...
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USAPA was born dead. A stillborn decaying union.
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Beating a dead horse may be an activity cherished by westies, but, the easties have much better things to do.
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Spare me the history lesson skippy, I've read all about Eastern, Braniff, etc. Malingering or causing deliberate harm to an employer is wrong. No way to get out of that with cognitive dissonance. You calling someone a troll? HA!
Isn't it time to change your name again?
