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For Immediate Release: September 13, 2004 Contact: David Kameras 202-434-0586 AFA Decries US Airways' Finger-Pointing Management Delayed, Withheld Information WASHINGTON - The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA strongly took issue with US Airways holding labor groups responsible in part for its filing for bankruptcy yesterday. "AFA was not surprised about the filing due to public comments the company has made in recent weeks," said Perry Hayes, president of the union's Master Executive Council at US Airways. "We were however surprised that the company would actually lie in papers it filed with the U.S. bankruptcy court." Despite management's contention that it had been discussing its transformation plan with labor groups for several months, AFA did not receive a proposal from the company until August 17-18, and it took nearly two weeks after that to provide a partial costing of that proposal. Even now, flight attendants lack a complete costing of the company's latest proposal. "The company cannot expect any labor group to negotiate blindly without the necessary information, which it alone controls," Hayes said. In contrast to management's contention that it pursued negotiations "with diligence and vigor," the company elected to have one team of negotiators to deal with AFA and the pilots' union. "Once the company was engaged with the Airline Pilots, we barely heard from them for a week," said Hayes. "That is 'vigor and diligence?'" AFA is urging US Airways to actually negotiate with the labor groups on the property instead of performing the "cram down" tactics of recent weeks. If there is to be any chance of reaching consensual agreements with employees, management will have to demonstrate it is intent on working with labor. A big step would be to tell employees what sacrifices management is willing to take, cut management salaries, increase supervisor productivity and block the use of title changes and sham promotions to gain increases, as happened during the last round of concessionary talks. More than 46,000 flight attendants, including 5,200 at US Airways, join together to form AFA, the world's largest flight attendant union. AFA is part of the 700,000 member strong Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Visit us at www.afanet.org. <:><:><:><:><:><:><:> Accessing
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