Stockholders Meeting in PHL Today ?

[PHL]

What does it effectively mean? Are they represented by one contract or two? When their contract renews, is it for all CWA and AFA folks, or will there be seperate negotiations/contracts?

 

[john john]

Tue, May. 15, 2007

US Airways CEO apologizes for botching computer system change

By Tom Belden

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
US Airways chief executive Doug Parker apologized to shareholders and employees today for management botching the airline's switch to a new computer reservations-and-ticketing system earlier this year.

John Hanson, president of the CWA local for New Jersey, New York and New England, told the CEO that even when the new system is functioning, it can take 10 to 15 minutes to rebook a passenger who has missed a connection, a job that once took one to three minutes. The "reservations migration," as airline workers call it, "set us back 10 years," Hanson said.

Parker said fixing the glitches that still infect the system is being done with input from front-line employees. "We can't talk to each other enough," he said. "I hear your frustration."

Dennis Eichfeld, executive vice president of CWA's Philadelphia local, asked if the 1,000 additional airport workers US Airways says it will hire here this summer will be enough to handle the usual summer-vacation surge in customers. Staffing for the airport's international operations hasn't been increased adequately to handle the 19 daily European flights the airline has scheduled this summer, he said.

Parker replied that the extra employees are needed throughout the airport but that he would look into the needs of the international operations.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/breaking/7514012.html

The word is out and we will see if upper management is willing to get a reservations-and-ticketing system that works and staffing to use it

 

[BoeingBoy]

staffing to use it

I wouldn't count on it, although I'm sure they'll be able to say they "hired 1000 more staff".

Remember the 4000 they said they hired last year? Actual full time equivalent employee count went up 700 according to the BTS. I can only presume that the combination of hiring part time positions plus new hires getting fed up and leaving caused the 3300 difference between the number hired and actual staffing increase.

Based on last years record, expect to end this year with 160-170 more FTE employees than now.

Jim

 

[john john]

Remember the CWA and AFA are one union now.

CWA represent a wide range of jobs very big union
CWA Sectors, Divisions and Units
· Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA)
· CWA Communications & Technologies Office
· CWA Industrial Division/International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE-CWA)
· Public Health Care and Education Workers Sector
· The Newspaper Guild (TNG-CWA)
· The National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians (NABET-CWA)
· National Coalition of Public Safety Officers-CWA (NCPSO-CWA)
· Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector
· Telecommunications (Independent Telephone Companies)
CWA Profile
CWA, America's largest communications and media union, represents over 700,000 men and women in both private and public sectors, including over half a million workers who are building the Information Highway.
CWA members are employed in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, electronics and general manufacturing, as well as airline customer service, government service, health care, education and other fields.
The union includes some 1,200 chartered local unions across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Members live in approximately 10,000 communities, making CWA one of the most geographically diverse unions.
CWA holds over 2,000 collective bargaining agreements spelling out wages, benefits, working conditions and employment security provisions for its members. Many CWA contracts call for innovative training and education programs and child and family care provisions that are considered pace-setters for organized labor in the modern workplace.
Among major employers of CWA members are AT&T, GTE, the Regional Bell telephone companies, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, General Electric, NBC and ABC television networks, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., major papers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, US Airways, the University of California system, and the state of New Jersey.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CWA also maintains regional district headquarters in New York City, Philadelphia, Silver Spring, Md., Atlanta, Cleveland, Austin, Denver and San Francisco. CWA staff members working out of 50 field offices assist local unions with contract negotiations, officer and steward training, organizing, legislative and community programs and day-to-day member representation.
CWA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the Canadian Labour Congress, and the worldwide Union Network International.
Further information on CWA's elected officers, departments and structure, benefit programs, and an array of innovative education, training and job placement services may be found on cwa-union.org. You will also find other useful information on political action, labor and economic research and more.

 

[usair_begins_with_u]

Did any one have the balls to ask dougie if he liked his scotch on the rocks or straight up.

 

[ussnark]

An the $200,000 question is......DRUM ROLL. Where was our AFA represenatives? Anyone? We know CWA showed up and voiced thier opinion. But no AFA? How can this be? h34r:

Here is one:


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and another:

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[brokenwrench]

I realize few of any of our employees watch News pertaining to the world events.
Mrs. Davis is very possibly a shareholder of hers or her husbands years of dedicated investments. She is at the age where no company attorney (addresser of this event) would distract her comments. She, Ms. Davis doesn't believe Board members should hold 3 years without votes (yearly). She addressed attorney fees at 14 million. They will "suck you dry". She addressed contributions to "What Party" in the elections that money is given. Only, 3.4% of shareholders voted for the members re-elected. And of the 3billion the company holds the shareholders only earned 45% of their interests.
I would suggest everyone listens closely to old money and new ways to run companies. Not, too many people listen to industries changing as a result to economies and world changes.

Mrs. Davis is a Gadfly you can catch at many a BOD meeting. She loves to give execs a hard time and is entertaining while she does it.

 

[BajaBabe]

Here was the Handout that was given to the police force, stockholders and union representatives

Si se Puede


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