MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE
October 13, 2005
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Thursday, October 13th, with three new items.
Item 1. The MEC reconvened its special meeting today and passed several resolutions unanimously, including:
l Pilots who flowed up to MDA will be placed on the US Airways seniority list, in consecutive order, immediately below the most junior APL pilot, and those positions will be assigned exclusively to those pilots in their relative seniority before all other CEL pilots. With regard to mainline seniority positions for non-MDA CEL pilots, such mainline seniority is subject to a fully executed bi-directional flow-through agreement.
l The MEC recognizes that a Flow Through Agreement providing opportunities for CEL pilots to flow up to Airways (the part of US Airways, Inc. other than MDA) and opportunity for furloughed Airways and MDA CEL pilots to flow down to PWO Carriers could be beneficial for all US Airways Group pilots. Any equitable Flow Through agreement must provide job opportunities of value to furloughed US Airways pilots flowing down to a PWO Carrier.
As US Airways management has provided assurances of their desire to negotiate and reach agreement on a definitive Flow Through agreement, the MEC directed that the Negotiating Committee, in coordination with the MEC Officers, negotiate an equitable Flow Through agreement with all the parties to a Flow Through agreement, which would be US Airways management, PWO Carrier management, PDT MEC and PSA MEC.
If a Flow Through agreement containing equitable flow up and flow down provisions can not be reached with the PSA and PDT MEC's, then the US Airways MEC directs that the Flow Through (both flow up and flow down) discussions with the respective PSA MEC or PDT MEC be terminated.
l Our government, through airline managements, is targeting the elimination of retirement plans through the bankruptcy process or the threat thereof. The US Airways MEC requests that ALPA develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to counter this anti-labor movement that includes, but not
be limited to the following:
- Specific lawful workplace actions
- Media, government, and public education of the issues
- Cross industry coordination through the AFL-CIO
If this issue can not be resolved to labor’s satisfaction in the near future, the AFL-CIO should consider all avenues, up to and including cross-industry work stoppages.
The MEC adjourned its meeting at 1:50 p.m. The resolutions passed during this special meeting are posted under "What's New."
Item 2. As required by a provision of LOA 93, The Transformation Plan, all pre-petition qualified money contributions not made July 2004 through September 12, 2004 due to US Airways' second bankruptcy filing were retroactively paid by the Company to the pilots' DC plans on October 11th, ahead of the required date of November 30th, 2005. Fidelity Investments has added the contributions to your account balance. If you have any questions regarding these contributions, please contact Benefits Administration at 1-800-872-4780, option 2.
Item 3. The Merger Committee has posted a new update under "What's New." This update discusses the Committee's recent and upcoming activities and also talks about the US Airways pilots' expectations for the seniority integration process. All pilots are urged to read this new message.
Please remember we now have 1,574 pilots on furlough with approximately 400 pilots currently working at MDA or Jets For Jobs carriers.
Thank you for listening.
October 13, 2005
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Thursday, October 13th, with three new items.
Item 1. The MEC reconvened its special meeting today and passed several resolutions unanimously, including:
l Pilots who flowed up to MDA will be placed on the US Airways seniority list, in consecutive order, immediately below the most junior APL pilot, and those positions will be assigned exclusively to those pilots in their relative seniority before all other CEL pilots. With regard to mainline seniority positions for non-MDA CEL pilots, such mainline seniority is subject to a fully executed bi-directional flow-through agreement.
l The MEC recognizes that a Flow Through Agreement providing opportunities for CEL pilots to flow up to Airways (the part of US Airways, Inc. other than MDA) and opportunity for furloughed Airways and MDA CEL pilots to flow down to PWO Carriers could be beneficial for all US Airways Group pilots. Any equitable Flow Through agreement must provide job opportunities of value to furloughed US Airways pilots flowing down to a PWO Carrier.
As US Airways management has provided assurances of their desire to negotiate and reach agreement on a definitive Flow Through agreement, the MEC directed that the Negotiating Committee, in coordination with the MEC Officers, negotiate an equitable Flow Through agreement with all the parties to a Flow Through agreement, which would be US Airways management, PWO Carrier management, PDT MEC and PSA MEC.
If a Flow Through agreement containing equitable flow up and flow down provisions can not be reached with the PSA and PDT MEC's, then the US Airways MEC directs that the Flow Through (both flow up and flow down) discussions with the respective PSA MEC or PDT MEC be terminated.
l Our government, through airline managements, is targeting the elimination of retirement plans through the bankruptcy process or the threat thereof. The US Airways MEC requests that ALPA develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to counter this anti-labor movement that includes, but not
be limited to the following:
- Specific lawful workplace actions
- Media, government, and public education of the issues
- Cross industry coordination through the AFL-CIO
If this issue can not be resolved to labor’s satisfaction in the near future, the AFL-CIO should consider all avenues, up to and including cross-industry work stoppages.
The MEC adjourned its meeting at 1:50 p.m. The resolutions passed during this special meeting are posted under "What's New."
Item 2. As required by a provision of LOA 93, The Transformation Plan, all pre-petition qualified money contributions not made July 2004 through September 12, 2004 due to US Airways' second bankruptcy filing were retroactively paid by the Company to the pilots' DC plans on October 11th, ahead of the required date of November 30th, 2005. Fidelity Investments has added the contributions to your account balance. If you have any questions regarding these contributions, please contact Benefits Administration at 1-800-872-4780, option 2.
Item 3. The Merger Committee has posted a new update under "What's New." This update discusses the Committee's recent and upcoming activities and also talks about the US Airways pilots' expectations for the seniority integration process. All pilots are urged to read this new message.
Please remember we now have 1,574 pilots on furlough with approximately 400 pilots currently working at MDA or Jets For Jobs carriers.
Thank you for listening.
