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WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING. YOU GAVE UP OUR SNAPBACK FOR $1.00 AN HOUR. HOPE THE MONEY THE UNION AND THE COMPANY ARE PAYING YOU COMPENSATES FOR THE THOUSAND OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENTS LIVES YOU HELPED TO DESTROY. WE ARE ALL JUST BARELY HANGING ON UNTIL OUR UNION FOUGHT FOR US TO BRING US BACK TO WHERE WE WERE AND YOU SOLD US DOWN THE RIVER. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A VOTE ON THIS SUBJECT AND YOU AND BRASWELL MADE THE DECISON WITHOUT CONSULTING THE MEMBERSHIP. YOU MAKE ME SICK (deleted by moderator)...HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US????
 
I believe it was done to get the company to agree to get rid of "Mainline Express" and bring those stations back up to the wages of everyone else at "mainline". Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but that was my understanding of what happened to the "snapback" money.
 
I believe it was done to get the company to agree to get rid of "Mainline Express" and bring those stations back up to the wages of everyone else at "mainline". Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but that was my understanding of what happened to the "snapback" money.

On Dec 2,2004 there was another agreement signed in which the issues of the snapbacks were eliminated to take the pay to 18.00 hr then to 18.60 in Jan 08....I am attaching the contract revision for you to review...it's all spelled out in the first 2 pages....mainline/express was brought up to pay parity after we merged with AW and the 200 agents systemwide in MLE are being brought back to normal pay along with AW agents.....MLE had nothing to do with the snapbacks being gone and the 1.00hr.....this happened prior....actually it was the CWA/IBT association agreement with the company that contains the MLE language of pay.


heres contract attachment...

CWA-US Airways 2004 Tentative Agreement

December 2, 2004

Transformation Plan Term Sheet

Effective Date:


See Attachment A, Paragraph 1


Definitive Documentation of 2004 CWA-US Airways Agreement:
See Attachment A, Paragraph 2


Amendment/
Rejection See Attachment A, Paragraph 6
Duration
Contract Duration

• Agreement remains in full force and effect through 12/31/11 and will become amendable 1/1/12
• All snapback provisions of the September 2002 and January 2003 Restructuring Agreements will be eliminated except as provided for in Attachment B.























Compensation
1. Base Rates of Pay

• All CSA/RSA/Club Reps/CTO and CSS/Lead employees will be paid on the following scale as indicated below:
Pay Seniority Completed New Pay Scales___________
Effective 1/1/05 1/1/08
Start $8.72 $8.72
1 9.59 9.59
1.5 9.79 9.79
2 10.31 10.31
3 11.25 11.25
4 12.08 12.08
5 12.89 12.89
6 13.73 13.73
7 14.36 14.36
8 14.99 14.99
9 15.64 15.64
10 16.30 16.30
11 17.00 17.00
12 18.00 18.60


































- Employees subject to the above scale will have their pay date seniority adjusted to reflect placement on the new pay scale one pay step lower than their current pay seniority (pay seniority will be adjusted) and will be frozen at that step for a two year period that begins on the effective date of this Agreement (Example: an agent at step 10 would be reduced to step 9 and frozen for two years, and will return to step 10 two years from the effective date of the Agreement, and then will continue normal pay progression from that point based on their adjusted pay date seniority).

- During the two year pay scale freeze, employees transferring into a position covered by the above scale will have their pay seniority adjusted as described above; and will be frozen at that step until the expiration of the 2-year pay scale freeze period.

- CAR, DMSC and BCC employees will have their current pay scales reduced by 12.9% and will be frozen at their current pay step for a two year period that begins on the effective date of this Agreement (pay seniority will be adjusted to reflect the change). See Attachment C

- MDA and Mainline Express Agents will be frozen at their current pay step for a two year period that begins on the effective date of this Agreement (pay seniority will be adjusted to reflect the change). See Attachment C

- - Employees returning or recalled from furlough to an Non Early Out vacancy (NEO) will have their pay seniority reduced by the number of full years spent on furlough. (Example: an employee who has been on furlough for 2 years and 7 months will upon his return be placed 2 steps back on his pay scale and frozen at that pay step for the duration of the 2 year pay scale freeze period provided they return during the pay scale freeze period).

- General increases to pay scales contained in the current Agreements will be replaced with the following general increases:
- 1/1/2009 3.0% increase
- 1/1/2010 4.0% increase
- 1/1/2011 4.0% increase
- 1/1/2012 2.0% Increase

- New hire employees will be paid the entry rate or at the company's sole discretion, at the one-year step of the pay scale. In the event that any new hire employee in a location is paid at the one-year step, then, from that time forward, all employees with less than one year pay seniority at that location will be paid at the one-year step and will have their pay seniority adjusted to reflect that change. Employees hired or placed on step 1 of the pay scale will not progress to step 2 of the pay scale until they have completed 2 years of pay seniority credit.
 
The snapback elimination in the Dec 04 agreement was a result of the bankruptcy cuts the company pressured CWA into taking. At the time the threats of job losses and mass threat to change so many cities to MLE cities during the negotiations played a role as to why this agreement happened. Im personally not saying that it was the right thing to do, Im just recreating history here so there is no confusion.
I work in an MLE city, and after the Seamless Service agreement was initiated and we were given the pay back in the 11 MLE cities along with AW, many people felt that they lost their money cuz of the MLE group, which only numbered 200. This small group could not have created compensation for the rest of the mainline employees to remain at 20plus dollars an hour. Bankruptcy did us in, the threats of major negative change did this group in. CWA national wasn't willing to chance it.
Again I'm not saying it was the right or wrong thing to do, I just have all my notes from the past few years to keep track of this....................peace!
 
Did the CWA give up their rights to filing a grievance over their change of control language?
 
Did the CWA give up their rights to filing a grievance over their change of control language?

It seems they withdrew it but did they give up rights to it?

December 6, 2005
CWA Local Officers and Staff


The new Passenger Service Employee Association IBT + CWA has reached an Interim Transition Agreement with US Airways management on all the outstanding seamless service and transition issues, and we will accordingly withdraw our change of control grievance. After two months of negotiations by the committee (CWA Local Officers, attorneys and staff and IBT attorneys and staff) the agreement calls for the following:


I don't see anything saying they gave up their snapbacks though.

Agreement
 
Looks to me that they did as "as the prop" states. Looking through my old contract book, Art. 2 b and new book Art. 2 b, there are drastic changes. Old language is taken out, but I can't find an agreement anywhere why it was changed.
 
Looks to me that they did as "as the prop" states. Looking through my old contract book, Art. 2 b and new book Art. 2 b, there are drastic changes. Old language is taken out, but I can't find an agreement anywhere why it was changed.
Is this the current language?

7 B. The Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and any Successor,
8 defined as a purchaser, assignee or transferee of all or substantially all of
9 the assets or stock of the Company or US Airways Group. Neither the
10 Company nor US Airways Group shall enter into an agreement with a
11 Successor which creates a Successor Transaction unless the Successor
12 agrees, in writing, as a prior condition of the Successorship Transaction,
13 to cause the Company and US Airways Group to continue to be bound by
14 the Agreement, as it may be amended pursuant to the provisions of
15 applicable law, and to cause any operating airline which obtains the
16 assets of the Company to honor and be bound by the Agreement as it
17 may be amended pursuant to the provisions of applicable law.
18 If a Successor is an air carrier, and the Successor conducts an operational
19 merger between the Company and the Successor or another air carrier,
20 then the Successor will provide the Company employees with a seniority
21 integration governed by Sections 2, 3 and 13 of the Allegheny-Mohawk
22 Labor Protective Provision.
23 Upon a change in control defined as the sale of all or substantially all of
24 the assets or common stock of the Company or US Airways Group in a
25 single transaction (or in multi-step related transactions) to a single
26 purchaser (or a group of purchasers acting in concert), the hourly rates of
27 pay under this agreement shall be increased to the rates which would
28 have been effective following the Pay Parity Adjustment in June 2002
29 under the Letter of Agreement on pages 96-100 in the basic agreement.
30 In addition to such hourly rates of pay, the CWA will have the right to
31 extend the duration of the CWA Restructuring Agreement for one, two or
32 three years at the CWA’s option, past the amendable date of the CWA
33 Restructuring Agreement, with across the board wage increases of four
34 and one half percent (4.5%) on the amendable date and on each of the
35 three (3) annual anniversaries of the amendable date thereafter (i.e.
36 12/31/09, 12/31/10 and 12/31/11). For the purposes of this paragraph,
37 “Common Stockâ€￾ is the Common Stock of US Airways Group, which are
38 then outstanding and the Common Stock issuable on exchange, exercise,
39 and/or conversion of securities of the Company or US Airways Group
40 which are then currently exchangeable into, exercisable for, or
41 convertible into such Common stock.
42

1 The Company shall request that the employees covered by this
2 Agreement shall be provided seniority integration governed by Sections
3 2, 3 and 13 of the Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protective Provision if the
4 Successorship transaction is a hostile takeover by a person, partnership,
5 corporation or other entity with whom or with which the Company has
6 no agreement concerning the terms of the said Successorship transaction.
 
Yes, that is the new book we got a couple of months ago. The old book states:

9b. It is understood and agreed that this Agreement will be binding upon any successors to the Company insofar as it is legally possible. In the event this is not legally possible, the Company and the Union will meet prior to any change and negotiate all possible protection for the employees hereunder.

In any event , the Company shall require that any Successor, as a prior condition of the Succerssorship transaction, guarantee that the employees covered by this Agreement shall be provided seniority integration procedures of Section 3 and 13 of the Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protective Provisions, provided, however, that the Company shall request that the employees covered by this Agreement shall be provided such seniority integration procedures if the Successorship transaction is a hostile takover by a person, partnership, corporation or other entity with whom or with which the Company has no agreement concerning the terms of the said Successorship transaction.
 
Is this current snapback provision?

Contract Duration
• Agreement remains in full force and effect through 12/31/11 and will become amendable 1/1/12
• All snapback provisions of the September 2002 and January 2003 Restructuring Agreements will be
eliminated except as provided for in Attachment D.

Attachment D=

Snap Backs on 12/31/11 to what was effective on 12/13/1999


1. Sick Leave and Pay
2. Holidays back
3. Premiums - Shift and Job
4. Travel, training and per diem
5. Holiday premium hours worked
6. Holiday Option II and Pay
7. Customer Contact Premium (increase)

8. Vacation Accrual/Schedule

1st year of service
monthly accrual 1.0 days -yearly accrual 10 days

10th year of service
monthly accrual 1.5 days -yearly accrual 15 days

20th year of service
monthly accrual 2.0 days -yearly accrual 20 days

25th year of service
monthly accrual 2.5 days -yearly accrual 25 days
 
WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING. YOU GAVE UP OUR SNAPBACK FOR $1.00 AN HOUR. HOPE THE MONEY THE UNION AND THE COMPANY ARE PAYING YOU COMPENSATES FOR THE THOUSAND OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENTS LIVES YOU HELPED TO DESTROY. WE ARE ALL JUST BARELY HANGING ON UNTIL OUR UNION FOUGHT FOR US TO BRING US BACK TO WHERE WE WERE AND YOU SOLD US DOWN THE RIVER. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A VOTE ON THIS SUBJECT AND YOU AND BRASWELL MADE THE DECISON WITHOUT CONSULTING THE MEMBERSHIP. YOU MAKE ME SICK YOU POS...HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US????
how do we get them out of there? This is only one of many things that they seem to have sent us down the river without paddles.....
 
IF THAT WASNT ENOUGH, WHEN MY STATION WENT MLE, THE DISPLACEMENT PROCESS WAS HANDLED DEPLORABLY WITH THE CWA RUNNING AWAY LIKE SCARED RABBITS. COME TO THINK OF IT, THE ONLY TIME A CWA LOCAL REP EVER CAME TO MY STATION WAS WHEN CRYSTAL CITY CAME TO "EXPRESS" US.
THINK ABOUT IT WE HAD ONE CHANCE TO PICK A TRANSFER CITY AND WE HAD TO GO IMMEDIATELY OR LOSE RECALL RIGHTS TO MAINLINE. MEANWHILE OVER AT AA, WHEN A STAION GOES EAGLE, THEIR CSA'S HAVE LIFETIME RECALL RIGHTS. THE CWA WAS VOTED IN TO PROTECT OUR WAGES, BENEFITS, AND SENIORITY.
HOWEVER THEY COWARDLY GAVE IN TO MGMTS EXCESSIVE DEMANDS
AND SHOULD APPROPRIATELY BE NAMED COWARDLY WEENIES ASSN.

THE ONLY THING WE CAN HOPE FOR IS TO PETITION THE NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD FOR ANOTHER ELECTION. THEN :down: WE CAN GET REAL REPRESENTATION.
 
CWA leadership was worried that the company (jerry glass) would ask the
National Mediation Board to call for another union election
CWA/IBT leadership was not confident that the agents would vote in another union. CWA gave up the change of control for the company to recognize the IBT-CWA Association and put the IBT West under CWA/EAST contract. IBT was years away for a new contract. The EAST got very little and had to accept THE HELPING HAND article that is very damaging to the airport agent group
 
MEANWHILE OVER AT AA, WHEN A STAION GOES EAGLE, THEIR CSA'S HAVE LIFETIME RECALL RIGHTS. THE CWA WAS VOTED IN TO PROTECT OUR WAGES, BENEFITS, AND SENIORITY.
HOWEVER THEY COWARDLY GAVE IN TO MGMTS EXCESSIVE DEMANDS
AND SHOULD APPROPRIATELY BE NAMED COWARDLY WEENIES ASSN.

THE ONLY THING WE CAN HOPE FOR IS TO PETITION THE NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD FOR ANOTHER ELECTION. THEN :down: WE CAN GET REAL REPRESENTATION.
Are you mainline now? and over at AA when they go eagle they stay eagle. Who would you like to get to represent the USAirways agents IAM? Ask the layoff with 90 days furlough/recall USAirways ramp guys what contract they like to have IAM or CWA
 
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