Ground Hog Day @USAir.....United AFA Too?!?

AFA's despicable track record concerning joint contract negotiations and seniority integration issues at merged airlines is on display again. You would think by now the lesson would be learned. But...........the next  JNC session at United is postponed until "sometime in December" while the persecution of the United 3 gets put on the front burner. Is United AFA on course to duplicate its years of failure at a JNC for USAir??
Consider this and judge for yourselves:

US AIR'S VOTE OF "NO CONFIDENCE"

On September 27, 2012, for the second time this year, flight attendants at US Airways (LCC) rejected a tentative contract agreement by just 48 votes.

The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) said Thursday that 51% of voters rejected the proposed contract as 5,527, or 85% of the bargaining unit, voted. The vote was 2,811 against and 2,761 in favor.  US Airways has approximately 6,700 total members.  The existing contract  offers salaries far below the levels available in the existing industry.

SEVEN years after the 2005 merger between US Airways and America West, flight attendants still work under DIFFERENT contracts. The tentative agreement would have resulted in a single contract with higher wages for both groups and would have extended strong job protections, which had been limited to the former US Airways flight attendants, to the entire group. Voters turned down the first tentative agreement in March 2012.  Mike Flores, the former AFA MEC President, who had strongly backed it, was ousted by the union's executive council (MEC). The version offered in the September voting differed little from the earlier version, but had unanimous backing of all the AFA leaders.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11721056/1/us-airways-flight-attendants-again-reject-contract-offer.html

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              UA MEC'S Kangaroo Court Moving Forward!

Next Show: United 3 "Expulsion Trial"

 According to the AFA Constitution & Bylaws, the charges against the United 3 where reviewed by the members of the Hearing Board and they have determined that there is "cause" to hear the charges at a formal hearing. No formal announcement of that hearing date has been made yet and who knows if this so called "hearing" will be open to the general membership or not. 
Tell your MEC President Greg Davidowitch that you demand all members in good standing, United and Continental, be allowed to attend this display of "afa democracy" in action. Email him at: mecpresident@unitedafa.org

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