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On 11/20/2002 11:57:24 PM chipmunn wrote:
LDKIAM:
The company made a presentation to all of the unions regarding US Airways financial situation and has discussed concessions. From your posting from the IAM website, it appears there have been no formal discussions between Labor Relation and IAM Negotiators, who have been very active at UA, where your union reached a TA earlier today.
By the way, the financial presentation was confidential; therefore, if the IAM did not address the financial crisis how can they say the IAM is carefully monitoring the carrier’s financial condition, per their website comment(s)?
Separately, the US PIT Chief Pilot wrote a letter to all PIT based pilots on November 18. The letter said, There has been much discussion about our revenue shortfall. Senior Management has indicated the need to revisist the cost side with Labor. Our focused goal is to secure debtor-in-possession financing (DIP) and the ATSB loan. This is crucial to our future and that is why Senior Management is revisiting the cost issues with Labor.
Regardless, would you comment on the ALPA EF&A financial report, the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, and the PIT Chief Pilot comments?
I would like to read your opinion on these facts. Thanks.
Chip
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Chip once again you do not know what you posting. There are five Assistant General Chairman and one Vice President at Large from District 141-M that are from US Airways and only negotiate and represent US Airways 141-M members, they were not and are not involved with the ongoing negotiations at UA. I mean do I have to invite you to the union hall so you can meet with two members of the US Airways negotiating committee that are in CLT? I mean why do you keep insisting things are happening that are not? If you do not believe me call AGC Bill Friebeger or DL 141M, President and General Chairman, Scotty Ford who was in CLT Tuesday and Wednesday, who by the way lead our concessionary negotiations.
Chip post facts not your opinions when it comes to matters involving other labor unions. You are not a member of the IAM, you do not know what is taking place or not taking place on our property. You need to stick with matters that concern your classification, did you not learn from your Charlotte Disturber fiasco?
The industry is broken and Carlos Bonilla, Bush's leading economic advisor met with our leadership at the white house several months ago, he informed them that airline employees make 20% too much and he does not care if any of the airlines go under, as long as there is a plane flying from point a to point b, he does not care, if it is red, white, blue or pink. He will not waste the tax payers money on airlines as long as we still have a transportation system in America. The government and the airlines are using 9-11 to lower our wages and break unions. The industry is broken and some kind of semi-regulation must be done to even the playing field. Upstart, low cost carriers do not have the same overhead of an established airline. Take Jetblue for an example, they have no heavy maintenance they signed a $10 million contract with EADS Aeroframe Services (EADS is the parent company of Airbus) to have all there heavy maintenance work and everything as small as a daily check to major overhaul done by EADS in LAke Charles, LA. Also they pay a housewife $8 an hour to have phone calls routed to their house and she uses her home computer thru Jetblue's web page and books their reservation while the established carriers have maintenance bases and reservations centers. I do not know what lies ahead but this industry as it stands today is doomed.
