What does this mean for the agents at US

[john john]

http://apsa6001.org/?p=355
The decision by American Airlines to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Nov. 29 has heightened our concern about our jobs and our future. Agents are the only major work group at the airline that is not represented by a union – meaning we have no voice in the bankruptcy process.
What can we do to protect ourselves? We can join together under the banner of CWA, the Communications Workers of America. With representation, we can negotiate a legally binding contract that defines the scope of our work and prevents the company from cutting our outsourcing our jobs without negotiating with us

For example, agents represented by CWA at US Airtways were able to minimize cuts in pay and work during the US Airways bankruptcy. Under the CWA contract with US Airways, only CSAs at airports and in reservations are allowed to do CSAs’ work, including ticketing, passenger boarding and deplaning, passenger check-in and baggage handling at ticket counters, gates and kiosks, and issuing vouchers and upgrades.

It’s different here at American Airlines, which continues to outsource pieces of our work. While having a union can’t guarantee we always have a job, it certainly makes it more secure.

 

[700UW]

Nothing, doesnt even belong here, its should be on AA's thread.

 

[signals]

Agreed!

But while we're on it, is it a good idea to start a union during BK process?

 

[WorldTraveler]

Agreed!

But while we're on it, is it a good idea to start a union during BK process?

won't make a hill of beans worth of difference at this point.
And non-union employees can have a voice in BK... management (non-executive) employees at nearly all US airlines are non-union.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/12/cwa-files-nmb-petition-to-repr.html

 

[700UW]

won't make a hill of beans worth of difference at this point.
And non-union employees can have a voice in BK... management (non-executive) employees at nearly all US airlines are non-union.

Non-union workers do not have a voice in the bankruptcy proceedings, you dont know what your talking about.

 

[john john]

won't make a hill of beans worth of difference at this point.
And non-union employees can have a voice in BK... management (non-executive) employees at nearly all US airlines are non-union.

Exactly how do passenger service agents get and pay for lawyers and have them be able to represent them in bankrupisty.I sure can show how unions do

 

[BoeingBoy]

Union's do it with the union members' dues, after taking out the union overhead. What's to keep the non-union employees from jointly doing the same voluntarily? Nothing but the collective will to do it. Just look at AOL - the west pilots have collectively spent something over $2 million on lawyers and AOL has enough to continue their fight. Where there's a will there's a way...

Jim