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WHEREAS, the US Airways flight attendants did our part to save our airline after CEO David Siegel and his new management team took over, and,
WHEREAS, the hundreds of millions of dollars saved by the airline as a result of the substantial sacrifices flight attendants twice made in wages, benefits and work rules that were extracted under heavy-handed threats of the shuttering of our carrier, have taken a devastating toll on our families and quality of life, and,
WHEREAS, those extreme measures still were not enough to save the jobs of thousands of our flying partners, whose dedication to US Airways was repaid with a furlough notice and a ticket to the unemployment line for them and their families, and,
WHEREAS, Dave Siegel's management team has regularly violated our contract even after the sacrifices we made for the survival of the airline, and
WHEREAS, management has unilaterally expanded the scope of our negotiated Restructuring Agreement beyond any terms the flight attendant would ever consent to under any circumstances - even under the threat of closure of our airline, and,
WHEREAS, Siegel and his key lieutenants disingenuous interpretation of our contractual provisions regarding personal days, medical and sick policies, the reserve system and an abusive continuance of the additional 5% pay reduction because of the war have been, by judgment of this MEC, to be willful and illicit attacks on the US Airways flight attendant,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the MEC's position is that the existing US Airways management team has failed to honor or administer our collective bargaining agreement in good faith shows a reckless disregard for the emotional and physical health of their workers, treating us as liabilities rather than the frontline ambassadors that we are everyday for our airline, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that David Siegel and the US Airways Board of Directors will be alerted to our position and asked to intercede on the behalf of the airline's dedicated frontline employees to return our 5% pay deferral now and immediately resolve outstanding contractual violations in an acceptable manner, making a public display of this airline's massive internal problems unnecessary and,
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that if David Siegel and the US Airways Board of Directors do not intercede on behalf of the US Airways flight attendants, the MEC and all flight attendants will act in solidarity to ensure that the flying public, community leaders, shareholders, and the media are alerted to the massive disputes described here, through all legal avenues available to us - including letters to Congress, letters to investors, media events and other public displays - as part of an intensive effort to bring US Airways into compliance with the existing flight attendant working agreement.
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