US Airways Aims to Jet Through Merger Process

[hp_fa]

L4P,

I find it interesting as a "truly uninformed" passenger that you need to try to insult people to make a point. Your attitude and your "ax to grind" comments serve no useful purpose, and personally, I could care less what you write or think. 😛

Have a great weekend and I will see you next week. 😀

Best regards,

USA320Pilot

Are ya gonna ask him for his customer number (like an employees number) and telephone number? Your career in the PR Department is going down the drain by calling customers "truly uninformed" and that he has "no useful purpose".

L4P should feel pretty good. Why? Because you don't like Boeing Boy either and nearly everyone here would opt to fly (or do anything else) with him rather then you.

'Nuff said.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Can you get it onboard?

The stores are beyond security, at a duty-free shop or newstand type of place. Just have to keep it out of the FA's site, hopefully they give a whole can of coke, otherwise I'd get too drunk too fast. lol. My friend and I did that on the way back from Vegas a few years ago with a bottle of Captain Morgan. FA caught me drinking one of the cans of beer we brought on board. She said finish that off quickly and don't drink anymore. We then did the Captain Morgan and Coke. When we left the plane we staggered off, she just gave us a smerk. My friend was getting married soon after that, we had his bachelor party out there.

 

[MMB]

> 700UW, this has nothing to do with cheerleading and everything
> to do with creating a stronger US Airways with better pay, benefits,
> and job security for all.

Exactly what we’ve been saying. This has NOTHING to do with improving the prospects of anyone or anything DELTA.


> In regard to comments regarding possible merger furloughs and other
> fallacies that "cynics" like you project, click here.

> … most of the US Airways employees were offered
> positions and many simply choose not to accept (for
> geographic locations or other personal reasons).

Something like, “We no longer need your services here. We do have a position on the other side of the country you are welcome to. It pays half what you are making here and you’ll have to move yourself there by Monday. Do you want the position?â€


> Pensions: As for pensions, the simplest way to state our
> case is to say that the merger calls for the exact same
> treatment of the pensions that Delta’s standalone plan does.
> … Delta’s other pension plan covers approximately
> 90,000 non-union retirees and employees. Delta froze
> this non-union plan effective 12/31/05, meaning that plan
> participants stopped accruing pension benefits as of
> 12/31/2005. … In addition, Delta has pledged to make
> additional contributions to the plan when it emerges from
> bankruptcy.

Not true. My DBP is growing at 3% per year. Not the 6% it was growing by, but still MUCH greater than what your company did to your pensions. As for trusting Parker to continue the Delta plan, I’ll go with the guy selling beach front property in Louisiana before I believe anything Parker has to say. Besides, this guy says Morgan City will be the next Waikiki.



> … etc…

Yea, we heard it all before when Lorenzo was popular.

 

[DesertFA66]

Folks in the West have been forced to eat sh1t since this merger began. If I was a deltoid looking in, I would not be a happy camper.

"what?" I have been fine with this so far and I'm a westie.

 

[Prince of PAWOBs]

I like the comment about "negative synergy".

These guys really need to brush up on their grammar and vocabulary, IMO. Creatively reassigning definitions to words and adding adjectives to emphasize them only makes them look sneakier than they already are.

 

[Sthrnboy]

"what?" I have been fine with this so far and I'm a westie.

Your not on the west pay scale and a reserve. Most of the reserves are only getting 30hrs... Most of them are quiting due to pay.

I would agree with we are (getting SCREWED) we need the east pay scale.... to make ends meet.

I am not a reserve however, I am very low in the pay ranks and I would LUV the east pay scale. B) Only in my dreams. :blink:

 

[barbeetantrums]

"what?" I have been fine with this so far and I'm a westie.

As a West fleet service agent, I have yet to see my pay match that of my East fleet counterparts. It looks like it won't be happening in the immediate future. When the pay increase comes, it will occur in small increments if the company has its way. I am also forced to wear a ridiculous looking vest that is difficult to put on and just adds another layer of fabric in the summer. My East counterparts don't have to wear steel-toed shoes but I do. I want to be paid what they owed me for the years that they hoed me.

Have things changed for your benefit since this merger? If it has, then good for you! More power to ya!

 

[LGA Fleet Service]

Edit-My apologies, bad day at work.

 

[Sthrnboy]

Pay me for the years that they hoed me.

If they only would now. :blink:

 

[fanlube]

Doug and his spin machine can say no furloughs happend as a result of the U/America West merger but go ask the thousands that hit the street while U East was in bankruptcy and was agreeing to the demands of the quote"outside investors". You better beleive their will be layoffs! Doug and the gang are going to say what everybody wants to hear you know, like I'll stop when it hurts, of course I'll respect you in the morning, you guys know all the rest!

 

[john john]

700UW, this has nothing to do with cheerleading and everything to do with creating a stronger US Airways with better pay, benefits, and job security for all.

Regards,

USA320Pilot

Hard to negotiate a very first contract for the passengers service group when a member of ALPA who has been represented my a union for his whole career is working with management to publicly go against the due union process
From the July 26, 2002 Charlotte Observer:

"What's disturbing are reports that the CWA leadership is misleading its members. Last Friday, company negotiators asked the union to meet, to try and resolve their differences. The union said its negotiators couldn't meet, but its advisers would be available. However, I'm told that when management tried to schedule a meeting, they were told the advisers had other commitments. Meanwhile, the CWA issued a report telling its members the company met with the advisers last weekend - which management disputes.Brinkmanship by any union could push the airline into bankruptcy. It's disappointing to see a relatively small group of employees risk the destruction of a viable company, with a devastating effect on 40,000 employees and their families."
USA320PilotUS Airways captain
This is Roy Freundlich with US Airways an MEC update for Friday, July 26, with two new items:
Item 1. Today the Charlotte Observer published an anti-union editorial from one of our pilots, titled "Unions can Sink US Airways," that aggressively promotes management’s objectives on achieving concessions from other labor groups. The editorial goes so far as to suggest that the CWA union leadership, who represent customer service employees, is misleading their members on their negotiating activity, and implies that management’s side of a dispute is more accurate.

This editorial does not in any way represent ALPA’s position, understanding, or sentiment, on other unions and their sincere efforts to represent their members. ALPA has received no reports, nor would it assign any value to reports, that suggest that any union is misleading their membership. The pilot author of the editorial holds no union position in ALPA. The anti-union public statements from one of our pilot-ALPA members is regrettable.

We urge all pilots to contact their reps or the Comm Center for accurate updates on restructuring negotiations and the activity of other unions. We also request that all pilots refrain from promoting any management anti-union propaganda or chastise other employees in the media. There is little to be gained from such activity other than embarrassment for yourself, your fellow pilots, US Airways, and ALPA

 

[USA320Pilot]

Everything written in the OpEd column was an opinion, based on accurate information obtained from sources with knowledge of the events.

In regard to ALPA's comment, as told to me by an MEC Officer, the only reason ALPA issued its code-a-phone was becuase the IAM "whinned" and ALPA elected to appease the IAM leadership.

These comments have been made over-and-over, but certain posters (who are cowards that hide behind thier PC insulting others) do not post this information, which I believe is "selective ethics". What's wrong, are some certain union members afraid to be criticized or to have the truth told so they can manipulate their members?

By the way, what is wrong with respectful debate and freedom of speech?

Best regards,

USA320Pilot

 

[MMB]

... I would agree with we are (getting SCREWED) we need the east pay scale.... to make ends meet...

I don't understand. Didn't DP say everyone would go to the highest pay scale within their respective work groups? As many times as DP has been held up on these boards as the pinnacle of honesty and fair play, I can’t imagine there would still be split pay scales at LCC. :unsure:

 

[barbeetantrums]

I don't understand. Didn't DP say everyone would go to the highest pay scale within their respective work groups? As many times as DP has been held up on these boards as the pinnacle of honesty and fair play, I can’t imagine there would still be split pay scales at LCC. :unsure:

No need to imagine it as it is true.

 

[ussnark]

Ted Reed's article is speculation and he needs a story virtually everyday to support TheStreet.com. Ted is a good guy, but nobody knows what the DOJ will require until the antitrust process begins.

That is the most idiotic comment I have read in quite a while.

"...he needs a story virtually everyday to support TheStreet.com"? I think most of us are smart enough to know "speculation", but then does your comment mean after that, he is willing to publish "trash" because to not do so will cause TheStreet.com to, um, falter?

But, then, even though Ted is willing to publish made up stuff (lies) just in order to support his .com, you call him a "good guy"? Like the whack-jobs who gave away the pilots retirement for no reason other than they were "afraid", you call them "good guys"? When you post speculation as fact, are you still a good guy, even though you misrepresent in order to sway opinion?

What about on a battlefield, you toss your weapon and run back to safety (but I preserved your yob), yet, you are a "good" guy?

If you represent the leadership and management of USAirways, it is no wonder they are in such disarray, you can't even provide safe, much less efficient transport with that low of a bar.