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CAL OPENS NEGOTIATIONS WITH UA!
AFA CAL MEC Negotiating Committee met with the Company on Monday March 5, 2012 to present opening proposals.  The opening proposals were based on the immediate needs expressed by the CAL fa's. Discussions at the table between CAL MEC and the Company included the opportunity to discuss the Company’s evolving business plan and its potential impact on the CAL membership.
Management agreed to continue negotiations with CAL MEC and more dates are expected by week’s end
The notable difference (aside from gross negligence) on how UA MEC conducted their negotiations is their stubborn refusal to meet with the Company without a mediator. This simple strategic blunder caused long delays (two years) and the subsequent poor outcome for the UA flight attendants by the UA MEC.
NMB rules allow both sides to meet without a mediator.
The CAL MEC negotiations is separate from any discussions of a "potential" combined agreement that UA MEC promised its membership. The CAL negotiations will be to represent the CAL flight attendants. The thousands of proposals by CAL fa's for the September 2012 amendable contract included:
- NO 8 in 24 (now 8.5 in 24)
- NO 30 in 7 (now 35 in 7)
- NO PBS (Preferential Bidding System - which is not in CAL's contract but it is in UA's contract)
- Continued Flexibility
- Higher Rates of Pay
- Improvements in Retirement (i.e. 401k)
Make No Mistake, The CAL Negotiation is Separate and Protects The Rights of CAL Flight Attendants!
http://calafa.org/news/negotiations-update-03-05-12/
NO CASH BACK!!
Since 2000 - CWA Paid Over $7,901,797 to Our Afa Staff "Negotiators" to Assist UA MEC!
For all this money, many of the flight attendants employed by these carriers "protected" by the CWA have had three or fewer contracts negotiated for them over the past 20 years, and many are often so poorly compensated that they have qualified for food stamps and other government assistance programs. It would save everyone a lot of time and money if the CWA Afa would extend the same courtesy to existing UA fa's that they are affording the new-hire CAL fa's - that is, just put a CWA Afa sticker over the cover of the IAM contract and call it a day! Put the UAL MEC out of work like they deserve and let the CAL MEC run the show working from the higher platform of the IAM negotiated contract. CAL MEC have started their negotiations whether UA fa's acknowledge it or not and whether the UA MEC is truthful about it or not.
The contract that the CAL MEC negotiators and Company management will agree upon within the next four to six months will be the agreement going forward. Whether UA fa's will be given a chance to vote on it with the tacit understanding that that will be the governing contract remains to be seen. It will also give us the clearest indication of how many UA jobs the UA MEC and International Officers are willing to sacrifice to prove a point that is relevant only to their egos.
Posturing Otherwise by the UA MEC Would be More Lies!
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WHAT UA FA'S DIDN'T GET IN THE NEW CONTRACT!
 While the UA MEC is busy self-congratulating and celebrating the new UA contract (they won't have to face the mighty Company again by themselves), we would like to highlight what was GIVEN UP by UA flight attendants!
Here is an example based on three scenarios: Our past contract, our new contract, and what we could have had if UA MEC had accepted the Company's offer nearly two years ago and allowed the UA membership to vote on it!
Actual Example With New UA Contract
Domestic UA FA at Top Payscale ($39.75 vs. $43.73 new) for the month of February, 2012
86 hrs 51 minutes *BASE Pay (Total 98.51 hrs)
AFA UA ($39.75) AFA UA ($43.73) IAMCAL($52.53)*BASE 86hrs. 51 $3,452.29 $3,797.95 $4,562.23TUS 3hrs.26 136.34 149.99 61.99FTCR 1hr.01 40.55 44.60DHCR 7hrs.33 300.11 330.16 396.60PD 198hrs.03 297.10 342.66 386.24NITE 0hrs.53 0.22 0.22 0.44QTR INCENTIVE 375.00TOTAL $4,226.61 $4,665.58 $5,782.50 PROFIT SHARING (deposited in 401k $2,406.76 $2,406.76 $3,051.14
for UA fa's)GRAND TOTAL $6,633.37 $7,072.34 $8,833.64
The New UA Contract Lags CAL contract by more than $1,800
* Incentive Pay - The above UA flight attendant was capped at 100 hours a month so the Incentive Pay was capped at 75 hours (CAL's will be difference of 225 and max of 350 hours of flying per quarter) for the purpose of this calculation. * *Based on Domestic Rate of Pay for UA and CAL
IN ADDITION
- NO PAY PARITY ($9 PER HR DIFFERENCE FOR DOMESTIC)
- NO RETRO
- NO METAL PROTECTION
- GAVE UP WORK RULE PROTECTIONS (35 IN 7, 8.5 IN 24)
- CROSSOVER SUBJECT TO DISCRETION OF COMPANY
- EARLY OUT SUBJECT TO DISCRETION OF COMPANY
- VACATION BUY OUT AT DISCRETION OF COMPANY
- NO PAY INCREASE FOR PURSERS
- NO PAY INCREASE FOR LANGUAGE QUALIFIED FA'S
- NO PARITY IN PER DIEM WITH CAL
- NO INCENTIVE PAY - ALL SAME HOURLY PAY
- NO "WHITE FLAG DAYS" FOR COMPANY DESIGNATED DAYS
- NO IMPROVEMENTS IN RETIREMENT
- NO PARITY IN SICK LEAVE ACCRUAL
- NO RAPID RE-ACCRUAL OF DEPLETED SICK BANK
- NO CATASTROPHIC SICK BANK
- NO PARITY IN VACATION PAY (CAL @ 3.15 HRS)
CAN WE FIRE THE UA MEC???
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UA VAC "PAY" for RSV "DELUSIONAL"
Vacation pay will now be 2:45 hr for each day for UA fa's instead of 3.57 hrs for reserves (RSV) per the old amendable contract (Sec. 18.K.3 on pg.144).
Examples Based on 12 and 15 vacation days of two different UA FA's with March vacation
Example 1:
Under the old UA Contract - 11 RSV days within the12 day vacation period was credited 11 x 3:57= 43.27 hrs. The new vacation pay will be 2:45 x 12 days = 33 hrs. That is a LOSS of 10 hrs 27 mins of PAY.
Example 2:
Under the old UA Contract - 12 RSV days within the 15 vacation day period was credited 12 x 3.57= 47:24 hrs. The new vacation pay will be 2:45 x 15 days = 41:15 hrs. That is a LOSS of 6 hrs 9 mins of PAY.
THE NEW GUARANTEE IS 78 HOURS WITH 12 DAYS OFF
The more RSV days in a vacation, the more pay a RSV will now lose with this new REGRESSIVE RSV pay. LOOK CAREFULLY!
RSV FA'S ON VACATION WILL BE FORCED TO FLY MORE!
*CAL's Vacation Pay is 3:15 per day for RSV & Lineholders
Congratulations! Machinists Union Wins Election for 17,000 at United Airlines!!!
 On March 7th, 2012, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) won exclusive representation rights for nearly 17,000 Passenger Service and Reservation Employees at the new United Airlines. The IAM received 8,305 votes during the seven-week election, while 5,865 votes were cast for NO representation! The election increases IAM membership in all classifications at the new United to 31,500 and marks the third consecutive airline organizing victory for the IAM Transportation Department. In addition to this week’s victory, previous wins among United Ramp & Stores (14,785) and ExpressJet Flight Attendants (2,200) brings the number of IAM members organized during the past eight months to nearly 34,000. IAM is the largest union on United's property.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is the largest airline union in the world.
www.voteiam.com
JOIN THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT COALITION FOR CHANGE AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN 2012!
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