COUNCIL 41

MEETING NOTICE

To all Council 41 Flight Attendants:

Local meetings have been scheduled (see below) for the beginning of January to discuss the proposal that you will be voting on. 

In my letter to you dated December 22nd (See Below), I stated that I could not call the proposal a tentative agreement. On Christmas Eve I received a call from US Airways Labor Relations regarding this statement. The Company was concerned that I would not call their list of demands a tentative agreement because technically it is considered a tentative because AFA agreed under threat of liquidation. 

I believe that a tentative agreement is one that we both negotiate. The Company advised AFA from the beginning that there would not be negotiations and ultimately there was none. Therefore I am unable to call the proposal a tentative but just to clarify ladies and gentleman, it is.

This is not an agreement that I can wholeheartedly back but I still believe that the threat of liquidation is real and you should too. Is liquidation a viable business solution? Hell no. But you have to remember who is controlling the money, David Bronner of the RSA group. If he pulls out his financing US Airways will cease to exist. Does he care about our sick time? Does he care about a reserve flight attendant? NO. He is a business man (call him a union buster if you want) with a plan and if the plan does not go his way he will take his money and run.

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Bob Kenia, LEC President 703-690-6859 Office 703-690-9350 Fax	Alin Boswell, LEC VP 703-212-8090 office 703-212-8089 fax	Katie Whitney, LEC Secretary 703-719-6940 office 703-719-6935 fax
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