DEADLINE LOOMS FOR EARLY OUTS.

 

 

Only a few more days before the Early Out offer closes.

Aircraft redeployment's, sub bases opening, routes changing hands from one subsidiary to another, will base closures be far behind? You bet they will! Those who take the early out will be off the payroll by the end of August. The Company will only have so many options to balance the subsequent domicile populations on the UA side.

And beware, AFA  has negotiated meaningless language concerning protections for international base closures.

 

EVERYTHING the UAL MEC has done seems to be for the sole purpose of playacting and posturing while they fervently hope as many people as the Company allows will take the early out option, so there will be as few of us left as possible to witness first hand their utter selling out of the s-United membership!!

REMEMBER:                                                      

The number of Early Out offers are at the “sole discretion” of the Company! (TA page 61). Will it be more than 1000? Less?

And for those of us who stay, back on reserve after 30 years??

 

ASK YOURSELF THIS: Would the Company need to institute all these changes if the AFA had negotiated a Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement after the election, almost a year ago?

   Hmmmmm……………………….

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"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."

                                                                                                                     -Stephen Jay Gould-

                                                           

The recent appointments of Kevin Lum and Jack Kande to the joint negotiating committee by the appointed UAL MEC and their rubberstamp LEC Presidents is a perfect illustration of the way members’ wishes are ignored and loyalty to union management valued over all else.  If for no other reason than simple common sense and good taste, the two men responsible for the two largest negotiating failures on behalf of United flight attendants over the past thirty years, should have been shown the door and a new team given a chance to make WORKING flight attendants’ voices heard.  Instead, the Afa closed ranks amidst a storm of controversy and rising discontent, and spit in the faces of its employers.

Dissension has never been welcome by the flight attendant sector, as evidenced by the very structure of the governing bodies within the organization.  Electoral  participation by the membership is restricted to the lowest offices, with no say being given to the membership at ANY airline to elect their own MEC.  Nor is the flight attendant sector as a whole allowed to vote on the international officers who purport to lead the entire "represented" flight attendant work force.  Instead, a closed system built upon cronyism and nepotism ensures only a select few individuals are given a chance to hold these higher offices, based upon their service and acceptability to union management and not the general membership. 

The inherent flaw, of course, is that a local representative is NOT going to vote in the interests of his or her membership if that means jeopardizing their possible advancement in a union career with greater pay and benefits sometime in the future.    Many of our so-called “representatives” at ALL sector levels have made no secret of their career ambitions at the parent union level and want nothing more to do with the so called "demeaning labor" of pushing a cart up and down an airplane aisle.  They’ve rubbed shoulders with business executives and labor leaders and had their pictures taken with Congressional leaders after all!  They can’t expect to be content with pouring second coffees and collecting garbage, can they?  And yet, those tasks are precisely what fund their exploits.

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UNITED TO OPEN NEW F/A BASES!



afa: "We're going to get the money"
"We're going to save your jobs"

NEWS FLASH!             

Yesterday, May 15th, United Airlines announced the opening of new bases for Subsidiary Continental Flight Attendants in LAX, ORD, DEN, SFO and IAD. Also new bases for subsidiary United flight attendants in IAH and JFK (EWR co-terminal). These bases to be opened in the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013. Read Sams' Update on "Flying Together", full letter here.

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NEWS UPDATE: CHICAGO MEC MEETING

AFA RETREADS..........

From behind closed doors in the back room of the AFA UA MEC Board of Directors meeting in Chicago yesterday emerges the infamous Kevin Lum and Jack Kande as the two "appointees" to the UA Joint Negotiation Committee.

***It is interesting to note today the lengths that the MEC web site goes to in reiterating how the MEC participated in the "democratic" process - when in fact there is no democratic process at all for WORKING flight attendants. Their participation ends, as we all know, at the local council level and that representation in turn is compromised by a local president whose political views and votes are solely informed and motivated by her/his political and career aspirations within the CWA/afa and have nothing whatsoever to do with what a membership may or may not want.***

***Was the membership informed that there were 13 candidates for these two positions? Where their resumes' posted anywhere for the membership to read? How was the membership to know who the candidates were so we could let our LECP's know who we wanted them to vote for? And this is supposed to be a "democratic" union?!? Hardly.*** 

  

Thank You AFA for being so member driven and having the vision and foresight to set us back twenty years! 

More on this development in our upcoming email news letter.   




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UA ALPA Pilots Request Release To Cooling Off Period!

On April 16th, 2012, ALPA MEC Chairman Captain Jay Heppner opened the week-long MEC Meeting in Chicago. For nearly 24 months there has been little progress on the core issues related to the off shoring and outsourcing of UA pilots jobs. United Airlines alone has 1,437 pilots who were laid off because of 9/11 and merger schemes, and they continue to be grounded.

United Airline Pilots plan to formally execute a release from their Section 6 negotiations under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) on April 30 if United management does not commit to completing these negotiations by June 1.

www.ualmec.org/

United Airlines prepares Boeing 737 order
United Airlines plans to order at least 100 Boeing 737 jets, sources say. The deal will focus on the Boeing 737 MAX, a fuel-efficient upgrade to the 737 that is scheduled to enter service in 2017. At list prices, the 737 MAX runs around $100 million per plane. Reuters (5/3)


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