FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4 , 2002
West Pilots to Conduct Informational Picketing in Tempe
PHOENIX – Uniformed pilots of America West
Airlines will conduct informational picketing at the airline’s headquarters
in Tempe on Friday, April 5, to demand their management seriously address
the key issues as they resume negotiations for a new contract.
Pilots will picket outside America West corporate
headquarters, 111 W. Rio Salado Parkway, from 10 a.m. to noon.
“Despite the break in our negotiations,
we want management to understand that we have not forgotten the sacrifices
and investments the pilots have continuously made to help America West become
the airline it is today,” said Captain Herb Holland, chairman of the
America West unit of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA).
Negotiations with management, which began in
February 2000 and were suspended after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, are
currently being conducted under the direction of a federal mediator. The two
parties have not yet begun discussing key economic issues including pay and
retirement.
“Now that negotiations are resuming, we
are committed to reaching a fair and equitable agreement with management as
quickly as possible,” Captain Holland said. “It remains to be seen
if America West management will show the same willingness at the negotiating
table.”
Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world’s oldest
and largest pilot union representing more than 62,000 pilots at 42 airlines
in the U.S. and Canada. Visit the ALPA website at http://cf.alpa.org.
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ALPA Contact: Scott Sherrin, (602) 306-4100 or (602) 418-2979