UAL Unions Express Concern with First Quarter Results
CHICAGO, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Airlines' first
quarter net loss of $152 million, is unacceptable after employees were
forced to make life-changing sacrifices totaling $5.6 billion annually in
cuts to pensions, pay, healthcare and work rules. This loss represents a
failure by management.
United Airlines Union Coalition leaders released the following
statement by Mark Bathurst of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Greg
Davidowitch of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA), Lou Lucivero
of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
(IFPTE), Jim Seitz of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA),
and Craig Symons of the Professional Airline Flight Control Association
(PAFCA):
We remain concerned about the future of our airline as executives fail
to recognize the increasing disaffection of employees toward the Company.
Employees ensured the airline emerged from its most vulnerable time, as we
rallied behind the concept that shared sacrifice would equal shared
rewards. Executives continue to destroy that concept and enrich themselves
at the expense of workers while employee resentment and anger grows.
Industry analysts predict that 2007 on the whole is expected to produce
over $5 billion in profits for the industry. There is still time for United
Airlines, and all of its stakeholders, to obtain a substantial portion of
these profits if action is taken immediately.
Employees must be engaged in the success of the airline, which dictates
that executives recognize our part in transforming the airline by
immediately instituting the promised shared rewards through:
-- Moving up Contract negotiation dates,
-- Increasing employee compensation,
-- Improving the success sharing program for employees, and
-- Addressing quality of work-life for each employee group.
United Airlines has tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the
circumstances of the industry. Implementation of shared rewards is the key
to our airline's success.
Combined, the coalition's five labor unions represent more than 30,000
United employees.
Contacts:
Dave Kelly Sara Nelson Jim Seitz
ALPA AFA-CWA AMFA
847-292-1708 847-292-7170 ext. 524 650-416-2005
Lou Lucivero Craig Symons
IFPTE PAFCA
650-634-2287 773-858-1712
SOURCE United Airlines Union Coalition
CHICAGO, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Airlines' first
quarter net loss of $152 million, is unacceptable after employees were
forced to make life-changing sacrifices totaling $5.6 billion annually in
cuts to pensions, pay, healthcare and work rules. This loss represents a
failure by management.
United Airlines Union Coalition leaders released the following
statement by Mark Bathurst of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Greg
Davidowitch of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA), Lou Lucivero
of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
(IFPTE), Jim Seitz of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA),
and Craig Symons of the Professional Airline Flight Control Association
(PAFCA):
We remain concerned about the future of our airline as executives fail
to recognize the increasing disaffection of employees toward the Company.
Employees ensured the airline emerged from its most vulnerable time, as we
rallied behind the concept that shared sacrifice would equal shared
rewards. Executives continue to destroy that concept and enrich themselves
at the expense of workers while employee resentment and anger grows.
Industry analysts predict that 2007 on the whole is expected to produce
over $5 billion in profits for the industry. There is still time for United
Airlines, and all of its stakeholders, to obtain a substantial portion of
these profits if action is taken immediately.
Employees must be engaged in the success of the airline, which dictates
that executives recognize our part in transforming the airline by
immediately instituting the promised shared rewards through:
-- Moving up Contract negotiation dates,
-- Increasing employee compensation,
-- Improving the success sharing program for employees, and
-- Addressing quality of work-life for each employee group.
United Airlines has tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the
circumstances of the industry. Implementation of shared rewards is the key
to our airline's success.
Combined, the coalition's five labor unions represent more than 30,000
United employees.
Contacts:
Dave Kelly Sara Nelson Jim Seitz
ALPA AFA-CWA AMFA
847-292-1708 847-292-7170 ext. 524 650-416-2005
Lou Lucivero Craig Symons
IFPTE PAFCA
650-634-2287 773-858-1712
SOURCE United Airlines Union Coalition
