Station Manager Fills In Cwa Agents Today

[diogenes]

And we've got class I and class II stations, express stations, MDA stations, and a partridge in a pear tree.

You'd a thought IAM would have seen what dividing the work force has done at ALPA, and went the other way.

Moreover, it would be of interest to see how the various groups are faring with their representation - IAM, CWA, ALPA and AFA.

 

[Dog Wonder]

The numbers are a small part of the story. The big part is who gets cut how.

Fleet, which will do whatever work it can get, will take a hit in small stations. Look for Mid-Atlantic to start their own Ramp by the end of the year.

CWA gets it from a number of directions. Kiosks, Gate Readers and simplified fares all will require less time and people.

Rolling hubs instead of banks hits everyone. Instead of needing to staff for 40 flights every 120 minutes, maybe staff for 25 every hour. You can work 200 flights in 8 hours with staff for 25 flights vs. 160 flights with staff for 40 flights.

Utility has done an excellent job of demonstrating their value to the company. Everything they do where they are, is done in other stations by Fleet or vendors. When receipt and dispatch went to Fleet in the hubs it was supposed to be when MTC and Utility were not available. It seems they were always too busy, now Fleet does a vast majority in of this work in PIT and CLT.

On top of all this PIT get stomped. Plenty of jobs gone there. Even if they bump out it is still a net loss.

Who can stop this from happening? The IAM in PHL is the smartest and best connected of the front line bargaining groups in the stations. They are union in the purest sense of looking out for each other without infighting. They also are in the one place that will feel the least pain.

This may not be what people want to hear, but it is not hard to see there is more to this than pay cuts.

 

[PITbull]

I seriously doubt a station manager was briefed on detailed plans for concessions and released the information before it was given to each respective union.

700,

You are correct. Management will inform each union representative from each group respectively their cost target.

Its worse than one may think or say on these boards.

Dog Wonder,

PHL IAM maybe tight, but when the base in PIT is reduced it will start folks to transfer to other bases and displace those in those base because of more senior folks coming in to keep their jobs. If the heavy maintenance arbitration is won, it will benefit all the mechanics on the job as they will go wherever the work is. However, if they lose it, then transfering will start and CLT and PHL both will be effected.

 

[700UW]

Dog Wonder, in the last round of concessions ALL reciept was given to Fleet service and only at five stations mechanics are suppose to drive the pushback unit, utility was taken totally out of the R&D function.

And not everything utility does is done by the ramp or vendors.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Take a look at Mid-Atlantic. Even where there is Utilty (PIT, PHL, BOS) Fleet dumps lavs and does water service where necessary.

If I am incorrect on receipt and dispatch I apologize.

To Pitbull, the PHL IAM is a strength. Never said they will feel no pain, only the least pain. Considering that, PHL will decide how far this goes.

 

[700UW]

That is midatlantic, not mainline and that will be changing also.

 

[Reservation Agent]

They are insane....

They might as well file Chapter 11 bankruptcy now...

We have given and given...

Management has given up nothing...And has been given bonuses, & merit raises..

While everyone else has given up pay, holidays, vacation pay, lost benefits.....

CEO's fail and are rewarded for failure....

About $50 million dollars worth of golden parachutes...for what?

If we are in finiancial difficulty....But at the same time, we can buy "Brand" "New" "Regional" jets, "Brand" "New" "Boarding Pass" Readers", "Brand" "New" Kiosk Machines.....Something is very wrong???

You better go ahead and file that bankruptcy paperwork... because the VOTE IS GONNA BE NO!!! #$@*&#% NO!!!
:down:

 

[delldude]

700,

I'm sure that this actually happened, since it happened in PIT in the
maintenance dept.

The information given to the mechanics by the shift manager was, the problem with maint. costs are not with pay, but with scope.

The airline cannot make a profit unless they are allowed to contract out all heavy maint. and what ever else the IAM will let them.

Info also passed on is that the airline plans to operate with approx. half of it's present employees.

Cutbacks in PIT will not affect pax destinations so pax will not feel the impact as much as the airport and U employees now Working in PIT.

Cross utilization - they need to use other employees to do the work of utility personnel.

Breifly discussed in the CCY meeting was U starting it's own third party company for heavy maint checks.

These are just a few of the things said by the manager to mech's in the meeting and I'm sure more will be coming since he also said this will happen by Sept.


linemech.

Breifly discussed in the CCY meeting was U starting it's own third party company for heavy maint checks.

another dangling carrot?
what happened to our third party maintenance carrot?
what happened to our 10 hour day carrot?
what happened to our MDA hire all the layoff mech's carrot?
now we have a new bigger ,tastier carrot....
i can see it now,after everyone bites on this one....they'll stall and manuever forever....
i'll be on the side holding my breath on this one....