US Airways ALPA MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE

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US Airways ALPA MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - July 2, 2007

This is Arnie Gentile with a US Airways MEC update for Monday, July 2nd, with six new items.

Item 1. Last week on Thursday afternoon, the US Airways pilot’s Negotiating Committee fulfilled resolution 07-63a- pay parity and sent proposed pay rates over to management. We expect a response from management shortly. In any case, the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) is planning to meet with management next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10th and 11th.

Our methodology in developing this proposal involved capturing the Narrowbody Top of Scale (TOS) Captain rate of 141.85 at AWA and inserting that rate as the TOS for a Group 2 AAA Captain. From that cornerstone rate of 141.85 we developed the rest of the rate proposal maintaining the current contractual differentials that exist in the AAA contract today----i.e. Group 2 to Group 1, Captain to First Officer, etc. The proposed pay rate schedule will be posted in What’s New and emailed to all pilots.

The “Equal pay for Equal Workâ€￾ parity resolution is as follows:

AI 07-63a - Pay Parity

WHEREAS the AAA pilots have been in fruitless contract negotiations with US Airways management to achieve a new joint contract with the AWA pilots for nearly two years, and

WHEREAS management employees have been granted pay parity with their AWA counterparts, and

WHEREAS this pay parity has resulted in pay raises for the affected management employees, and

WHEREAS the AAA pilots have not been included in a similar pay parity process,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the AAA MEC demands immediate pay increases in order to obtain parity with the higher AWA pilot pay rate, and

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Strike Preparedness Committee is reactivated to support all activities to achieve equal pay for equal work for the AAA pilots, and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the AAA Negotiating Committee immediately engage the company in discussions to achieve pay parity for the AAA pilots with commensurate percentage increases for all AAA pilots preserving current pay rate differentials.

Passes Unanimously

Item 2. In light of anticipated hiring by US Airways in the near future, MEC pilot representatives from America West, Piedmont, PSA and US Airways, along with ALPA President John Prater, Vice-President Administration Bill Couette and other ALPA National Representatives, met last week to discuss concepts of career protection and ways to promote progression to the mainline from the US Airways wholly-owned carriers.

Everyone agreed that it would be valuable to continue these discussions internally and approach management with basic parameters of a system to accomplish these objectives. They also committed resources from their own MEC’s and ALPA National to work on the project.

We will report back to you with any developments.

Item 3. Pilots are receiving statements from ALPA displaying a credit from the merger assessment. This can easily be confused with an ALPA bill for payment. If there is no amount in the "Due" box, the amount is most likely a credit.

Item 4. The Flight Operations Security Committee has been advised by ALPA International that England has gone to a Severe Security alert, due to undisclosed terrorist activity. Expect some changes in security procedures in England as a result. When the Security Committee has more specific information, it will pass it along to the pilot group.

Also ALPA’s National Security Committee released a Committee Update that will be posted in What’s New.

Item 5. The Aeromedical Committee has posted the July 2007 United Behavioral Health's "Wellness Monthly" update under the Aeromedical Committee home page. This update highlights the appropriate subject of "Managing Your Anger."

Item 6. The ALPA MEC office will be closed this Wednesday for the Fourth of July holiday. The office will reopen on Thursday, July 5th at 9 a.m. On behalf of the MEC Officers and the MEC, I'd like to wish everyone on the ground and in the air, a happy and safe holiday.

W.A.R. Item 701

FAR 91.3

The Pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.

Please remember as of June 25th, we still have 1,404 pilots on furlough, 316 pilots have been recalled, and all pilots on furlough have been offered recall.

Follow the three prong approach, fly safe and thanks for listening.
 
US Airways ALPA MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - July 2, 2007
WHEREAS management employees have been granted pay parity with their AWA counterparts, and

WHEREAS this pay parity has resulted in pay raises for the affected management employees, and

WHEREAS the AAA pilots have not been included in a similar pay parity process,

WHEREAS the AAA pilots are union members

WHEREAS until a Merger agreement is reached

WHEREAS the AAA pilots won't get crap
 
One of the seniority integration options for the US Airways MEC is for the East pilots to obtain a pay raise per Doug Parker's overture and operate the two pilot groups separately under the current contracts.

This would permit the East and West pilots to maintain their pre-merger career expectation, prevent the Nicolau Award for many, many year's (maybe a decade) from being implemented, and provide "equal pay for equal work".

The benefits to both pilot groups are:

- Maintain pre-merger career expectation.
- Equal pay for equal work.
- Stop the fighting and work with other employees to build the airline.

Regards,

USA320Pilot
 
One of the seniority integration options for the US Airways MEC is for the East pilots to obtain a pay raise per Doug Parker's overture and operate the two pilot groups separately under the current contracts.

This would permit the East and West pilots to maintain their pre-merger career expectation, prevent the Nicolau Award for many, many year's (maybe a decade) from being implemented, and provide "equal pay for equal work".

The benefits to both pilot groups are:

- Maintain pre-merger career expectation.
- Equal pay for equal work.
- Stop the fighting and work with other employees to build the airline.

Regards,

USA320Pilot
I would agree with the above post as long as AWA takes delivery of the A320s that were on the books in 2005 prior to the merger being announced....
 
Why can't AWA pilots sign up at that site? Elitists!

This is in process now. From what I understand, the pilots running that website are trying to get the west information so that they can insure that only east and west pilots can access. They already had the east info, so the east pilots already have access.

The way I understand it, as soon as they come up with the west info, they will also have access.

The objective of the effort and the website is to certify a new, independent union for ALL USAirways pilots as the sole bargaining agent. Any pilot not interested in that objective and who wishes to sign up just for antagonism and disruption will likely find themselves unceremoniously ejected. It would be logical to assume that such disruptive pilots would not be voting for new representation anyway, so I imagine ejecting them would be of no consequence to the effort.

The forums are there to discuss the new union and the best ways to form it, set it up, run it, etc. The forums are not there to bash ALPA, Nicolau, Parker, the MEC, etc. I am not personally in a leadership position in that movement, but I certainly hope that any discussions off- topic (especially rancorous ones) be unceremoniously removed by the moderators. There are more productive ways to expend our energies toward the goal.
 
Do you want to decertify ALPA? If so, why?

Just giving it some thought, because Capt. Prater and the E.C. have thus far failed to follow Section 45/ALPA Merger policy. His job is to ACCEPT THE LIST, DELIVER THE LIST TO LCC MANAGEMENT, AND DEFEND THE LIST. PERIOD.
 
One of the seniority integration options

The only seniority option for the East pilots is to eventually have the Nic award rammed down their throats since they won't accept or forgot that they agreed to binding arbitration.

Is this a proposal on the table now?
East pilots to obtain a pay raise

Parker has said and continues to say "they will be no pay raises until the union and company have come to transition agreements"
 
The only seniority option for the East pilots is to eventually have the Nic award rammed down their throats since they won't accept or forgot that they agreed to binding arbitration.
Parker has said and continues to say "they will be no pay raises until the union and company have come to transition agreements"

1) Tsk Tsk...Young innocent one...how little you understand the ways of the world.

2)"Parker has said"...and you BELIEVE him?..on ANYTHING? See comment 1) above.