AFA - US Airways E-Line
May 24, 2002
http://www.afausairways.org/eline.htm
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR US
AIRWAYS FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
IMPORTANT
MESSAGE FOR US AIRWAYS FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
In our meeting on May 21,
management asked for significant sacrifices. Here's what the company wants:
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$950 million per year total
in cost savings from all of its work groups.
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Approximately $90 million per
year in sacrifices from the flight attendants.
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Management is asking the flight
attendants to absorb 9.5% of the total sacrifices requested for from all
work groups. The approximately $90 million per year also equals a 21% cut
of the total annual flight attendant cost.
In our meeting, management made
suggestions of areas where flight attendants could make sacrifices. But
those suggestions were essentially a list of every area in our contract
where flight attendants produce a cost to the airline, including health
benefit and pension cuts, productivity enhancements (Vacation, Sick, Premium
pay, work rule cuts, etc.), and wage concessions. Management made it clear
that we will have a significant voice in shaping the way the sacrifices
impact flight attendants.
The flight attendant representatives
elected to serve on the Negotiating Committee, along with the attorneys,
professional negotiators, and financial analysts and benefits specialists
retained by AFA, will look into every option available to reduce the flight
attendant costs with as little impact as possible on your quality of life.
Please keep in mind, though, that $90 million a year is a lot of money
to cut from our costs, so this will not be a painless process.
Your Negotiating Committee
is also committed to holding management to their pledge that once the airline
turns around, and the loan guarantee guidelines that come with the $1 billion
loan management is attempting to secure from the federal government are
satisfied, we will receive the benefits of profit-sharing and other means
to pay us back for the sacrifices we make to help this airline survive.
If you have questions or
suggestions, please use this FORM
or email your questions/suggestions to answers@afausairways.org
or call 800-531-3242.
Keep in mind that the AFA
flight attendant contract remains in full force and effect. That means
management cannot just make changes or unilateral cuts to our contract.
Any and all changes must be negotiated for and approved of by the flight
attendants in a ratification vote. You will get the final say in whether
to approve the sacrifices management is requesting that the flight attendants
make.
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