This is Eric Edwards with the MEC Hotline
on Thursday, January 9. Tonight’s topics:
1. Local Council Officer Elections
2. Negotiating Team
3. Roadshows
4. Contract Awareness
5. Pay Spreadsheet
6. Woerth Testifies
Local Council Officer Elections
As a reminder, balloting for Local Council
officer elections closes at 0800 Phoenix time tomorrow, January 10. Voting
can be done by phone at 1-888-647-1787 or via the Internet at https://www.ballotpoint.com/alpa.
You will need your ALPA number and password to vote. We will announce
the winners of the election as soon as we have the results on Friday.
Negotiating Team
The Negotiating Team has been spending the past week going through the
C2000 TA sections that they worked on to check for language discrepancies.
This work has been time consuming and tedious as they read line-by-line
through the contractual language that the company team developed from
the concepts put forth in the mediator’s proposal. In instances where
words have been changed, sentences misplaced, or paragraphs missed, the
team has been making changes to reflect previous drafts and negotiating
notes. The mediator has been back in Phoenix to oversee this process and
it will continue on into next week.
Roadshows
The MEC met in session this week and passed a resolution pertaining to
roadshows to present the Contract 2000 TA. There will be at least three
roadshows per week and the roadshows will last for three weeks. We are
tentatively scheduling them for the Terminal Four meeting room near the
food court and times will vary in an attempt to meet everyone’s schedule.
The times and dates will be announced as soon as a completion date can
be determined for the remaining unwritten contract language.
Contract Awareness
By now you should have received an eight-page
Contract Awareness summary of the Contract 2000 TA. Thanks goes to one
of our pilots who discovered a comparison difference in five places between
C95 and the C2000 TA. In order to make a true “apples to apples”
comparison between the two documents, you must make some pen and ink changes
as you read it. Under Section 4, Minimum Pay Guarantee for C95, lineholder
should read 83:25 not 77:00 and reserve should read 81:15 not 75:00. The
C2000 TA is correct at 75 and 77. Section 12, Maximum Credit Cap under
C95 should read 97:30 not 90:00, Pay Cap should read 89:23 not 82:30,
and Minimum Reserve Days Off should read 10.83 (6.5 golden, 4.33 movable).
C2000 TA bullet points are correct. Section 25, Line Range under C95 should
read (83:25-91:00). C2000 TA bullet point is correct. There was an unintentional
computation error made in converting 13 bid periods back to 12. The changes
will demonstrate a true comparison between the two agreements.
Pay Spreadsheet
A comparison pay spreadsheet is in the final stages of refinement. It
should be posted to the MEC website late Monday and will allow pilots
to input C2000 TA pay rates along with projected hours flown to determine
the earnings difference between C95 and the C2000 TA.
Woerth Testifies
ALPA President Duane Woerth testified today
before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on
the state of the airline industry. Woerth testified that a combination
of enormous taxes and security costs as well as the refusal of the ATSB
to provide relief in the manner mandated by Congress are slowly strangling
the industry. He also focused on the effect the industry troubles have
had on airline employees, with nearly 7,000 ALPA pilots currently on furlough
and more predicted. Woerth called on all involved – including Congress
and airline management – to work with airline employees in finding solutions
to the current industry crisis; labor bashing will not turn the industry
around. Woerth’s complete testimony is available on the ALPA
website and a video of the entire hearing can be viewed at www.cspan.org.
That’s all for tonight; the next regular
Hotline update is scheduled for Thursday, January 16. Thanks for listening.
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