AWA your welcome!

[l8rd8r]

Done with the "AWA saved our A*#!".
Cash is king. The AWA senior agents are moving from $13.00 per hour to $18.00 per hour. Ok guys, if it wasn't for USeast you'd still be on your own making peanuts. Ya, we at USeast have a new future. OH, OK...we BOTH win! This is per a new article on deleted by moderator and also, from my neighbor. She's been an Agent for 14 years and makes the big $13.00 an hour. Congratulations......this is exciting news. Eat your words....Their not fattening and welcome aboard.

 

[320driver]

They wont be celebrating for long a $5.00 raise means nothing when you are bumped out of a job because because of you.

 

[l8rd8r]

news article:12/07/2005
US Airways' gate, reservation agents, may gain pay hike
Karen Ferrick-Roman, Times Staff


A joint contract for US Airways and America West Airlines gate and reservation agents puts raises on the horizon for many workers.

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The contract was announced Tuesday by the newly merged airline and the two unions representing agents: the Communications Workers of America at US Airways and the Teamsters at America West, said Candice Johnson, spokeswoman for the CWA national. The two unions formed a coalition to represent the agents, including about 195 in Pittsburgh.

While the pilots groups have a transition agreement in place, this is really the first joint contract since the merger, said airline spokesman Phil Gee.

The agents' contract serves several purposes.

First, it resolves a CWA grievance and lifts the airline's pay freeze, said Jim Drummond, president of the CWA local in Pittsburgh and a member of the negotiating team. In mid-October, the CWA filed a grievance, seeking about $5 an hour more for its top-scale workers because of a clause kicked in by the merger.

The company and union settled on a $1-an-hour raise for top-scale employees, increasing top pay from about $17 an hour to about $18 an hour, starting April 1, 2006, Drummond said. In January 2007, workers will get another increase of 60 cents an hour. Raises are scheduled for every year of the CWA contract, which expires in December 2011.

The agreement also ends pay differences between small stations, such as Harrisburg, and mainline operations, such as Pittsburgh. At these small stations, which had regional planes and up to four mainline jets, workers earned about one-third less, Drummond said. These 280 workers across the old US Airways system will be incrementally brought up to the mainline level, as will America West agents.

Although the Teamsters have represented America West agents since 2004, they had no contract, Johnson said.

Over the next 20 months, America West agents will be phased into the US Airways' pay scale, starting with a raise of 40 cents an hour in April 2006, Drummond said. America West agents had topped out at $13 an hour, but merit, not seniority, was the basis for raises. The Teamsters will develop a seniority list and have six months to iron out remaining issues with the company.

The contract, Johnson and US Airways Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker agreed, was an important milestone.

"That we have reached an agreement so quickly ... is indicative of the continued progress we are making at the new US Airways," Parker said in a prepared statement.

"These are groups, especially the US Airways agents, that have taken concessions and cuts over the years in order to keep the airline growing," Johnson said. "This also shows they can be a part of the new US Airways.

"Now, the new US Airways can go forward."






©Beaver County Times Allegheny Times 2005


newbie....be patient, expansion means job openings. Your DP will pull this off. Where is your faith in this man?

 

[SSRinPHX]

Fine, but what will happen with our vacation and sick time until we're making as much as our East counterparts? I don't like the idea of being slapped in the face with fewer sick days and less vacation while I'm still earning LESS than others doing the EXACT SAME JOB. Until my 20 months are up, I'd like to see us keep what we have for our other perks. Otherwise give us the East payscale by the end of 2006.

 

[PhxMama]

Fine, but what will happen with our vacation and sick time until we're making as much as our East counterparts? I don't like the idea of being slapped in the face with fewer sick days and less vacation while I'm still earning LESS than others doing the EXACT SAME JOB. Until my 20 months are up, I'd like to see us keep what we have for our other perks. Otherwise give us the East payscale by the end of 2006.

I agree. First, Im not sure what their vacation and sick day allowances are in comparison to HP rez. I understand they dont get 3 weeks vation unil 10yrs vs HP 5 yrs but not sure. Will they grandfather agents in with more than 5 years? What about part time agents that had benefits for their famiies grandfathered in. Will that change? When will HP rez pay dues? We haven't voted on a contract and too many details are unclear. Does Scott kirby and crew have to wait 20 months for their raises? LOL

 

[hula-flyguy]

Done with the "AWA saved our A*#!".
Cash is king. The AWA senior agents are moving from $13.00 per hour to $18.00 per hour. Ok guys, if it wasn't for USeast you'd still be on your own making peanuts. Ya, we at USeast have a new future. OH, OK...we BOTH win! This is per a new article on deleted by moderator and also, from my neighbor. She's been an Agent for 14 years and makes the big $13.00 an hour. Congratulations......this is exciting news. Eat your words....Their not fattening and welcome aboard.

That's just plane old rude.

 

[AIRWOMAN]

That's just plane old rude.

Any pun intended Hula-flyguy??

 

[hula-flyguy]

Any pun intended Hula-flyguy??

yep

 

[AIRWOMAN]

yep

Good one!!

 

[etops1]

can't we all just get along? i mean,come on guys.

 

[RowUnderDCA]

I think there are people in this world that like to sow seeds of hostility, because they're more secure to be part of a group or small group that is 'against' some other group. Simply being an individual that shares respect, common values and fun times isn't good enough, they have to have an enemy to go after with compadres.

 

[ResRepGirl]

While I am glad the agents got a raise (seriously), I am just ticking off my list of all the things that went wrong in the PI/US merger and so far DP and friends are working very quickly down my list of "things that doomed the merged airline".

-Lets take the higher cost structure of the EAST and overlay it on the WEST.

-Lets throw away the $20M we paid in buyouts to outsource Res, even though our competitors are moving off shore at breakneck speeds.

-lets toss out all the mid level managers who know their piece of the business and make all the same mistakes while we get smart about the EAST operation

-lets give the senior team raises

Again, I have nothing against the res agents getting a raise, and eliminating the mainline express classification (was a stupid idea for the EAST).

However, I am just watching the CASM tick up because I don't see anything happening on the other side of the cost or revenue equation. If things don't start changing dramatically, a year from now, they'll be asking for concessions and shrinking the airline.

We never learn.
RRG

 

[speedbird86]

While I am glad the agents got a raise (seriously), I am just ticking off my list of all the things that went wrong in the PI/US merger and so far DP and friends are working very quickly down my list of "things that doomed the merged airline".

-Lets take the higher cost structure of the EAST and overlay it on the WEST.

-Lets throw away the $20M we paid in buyouts to outsource Res, even though our competitors are moving off shore at breakneck speeds.

-lets toss out all the mid level managers who know their piece of the business and make all the same mistakes while we get smart about the EAST operation

-lets give the senior team raises

Again, I have nothing against the res agents getting a raise, and eliminating the mainline express classification (was a stupid idea for the EAST).

However, I am just watching the CASM tick up because I don't see anything happening on the other side of the cost or revenue equation. If things don't start changing dramatically, a year from now, they'll be asking for concessions and shrinking the airline.

We never learn.
RRG

Have been thinking the same thing. "Mirror Image" comes to mind.

 

[l8rd8r]

No hostility intended. I was just plane old tired of hearing that west saved east. DPs CLT meeting confirmed our need for each other.

 

[delldude]

can't we all just get along? i mean,come on guys.