Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group Subsidiaries Overwhelming Reject Unionization Drive
Wednesday April 7, 1:54 pm ET
PHOENIX, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA - News) announced today that it had received the results of an election by Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group subsidiaries in which the dispatchers at Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines and Air Midwest overwhelmingly rejected a unionization drive advanced by the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The election was conducted by the National Mediation Board. Of the 43 eligible voters, 32 (74%) chose not to unionize and not to be represented by the TWU.
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"Mesa has strived to maintain a close relationship with its dispatchers based on open communication and "out of the box" employee initiatives. We believe the merits of our approach were reflected in this vote," said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "More importantly, Mesa's dispatchers have rejected the standard industry labor model, which we believe to be broken, that has unfortunately resulted in furloughs, concessions and overall employee dissatisfaction at many carriers. Our dispatchers have instead embraced an incentive based compensation and benefit package tied directly to the company's performance that combines competitive wages with multiple bonus programs and stock options. We would like to thank all of our dispatchers for their support. With this vote of confidence, we can continue to offer opportunity and job security to our dispatchers while working together to create and maintain an industry leading atmosphere aimed at achieving our common goals," noted Ornstein.
Wednesday April 7, 1:54 pm ET
PHOENIX, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA - News) announced today that it had received the results of an election by Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group subsidiaries in which the dispatchers at Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines and Air Midwest overwhelmingly rejected a unionization drive advanced by the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The election was conducted by the National Mediation Board. Of the 43 eligible voters, 32 (74%) chose not to unionize and not to be represented by the TWU.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990210/LAW065)
"Mesa has strived to maintain a close relationship with its dispatchers based on open communication and "out of the box" employee initiatives. We believe the merits of our approach were reflected in this vote," said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "More importantly, Mesa's dispatchers have rejected the standard industry labor model, which we believe to be broken, that has unfortunately resulted in furloughs, concessions and overall employee dissatisfaction at many carriers. Our dispatchers have instead embraced an incentive based compensation and benefit package tied directly to the company's performance that combines competitive wages with multiple bonus programs and stock options. We would like to thank all of our dispatchers for their support. With this vote of confidence, we can continue to offer opportunity and job security to our dispatchers while working together to create and maintain an industry leading atmosphere aimed at achieving our common goals," noted Ornstein.
there is a 1% chance that a miracle will happen like maybe the rapture or something I don't know but other than that you can bet that there will be an election, as far as who will win those odds are much closer, I will guess that AMFA will win since they have not lost an election yet but you never know it could be a close election so close that I would not even take a bet on that, but there will be an election you can bet on that and remember you heard it from Raptor first 
