America West Pilots Voice Concern Over Proposed Merger
21 June 2005 - 2:35AM
PR Newswire (US)
America West Pilots Voice Concern Over Proposed Merger PHOENIX,
June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The leadership of the America West Airlines
(NYSE:AWA) unit of the Air Line Pilots Association today expressed
deep concern that AWA senior management continues to ignore
reasonable requests to help the union protect its membership if the
merger between America West and US Airways is approved. In a
meeting with senior AWA management, leaders of the AWA pilots union
raised a small number of concerns and issues related to the
proposed merger. Specifically, the MEC identified a few hot-button
issues they felt needed to be addressed. America West CEO Doug
Parker had verbally assured the pilot union leadership that he
wanted to protect his frontline employees, including the pilots,
from potentially adverse career impacts from the merger. The pilot
leadership has made it clear to AWA management that there needs to
be certain steps taken to ensure that a "fair and equitable"
seniority integration takes place. It is unfortunate that the
pilots are not getting a clear and consistent message from all
levels of AWA management. "Clearly past labor-management
relationships in this industry have not worked," said Captain JR
Baker, Chairman of the AWA Master Executive Council. "We do not
want to see the failed policies of past airline labor-management
relations brought to our table." "We told Mr. Parker that we looked
forward to forging a new relationship with management and we made
it clear that we understood this was an uphill climb to make this
deal work. Despite his assurances, in less than one week, we were
back to the same mentality that legitimate labor concerns come a
distant second in the priorities of some senior AWA managers." The
Air Line Pilots Association is the bargaining agent for the more
than 1,900 pilots at America West Airlines. Founded in 1931, ALPA
is the world's largest pilot union, representing 64,000 pilots at
41 airlines in the United States and Canada. Visit the ALPA website
at http://www.alpa.org/. DATASOURCE: Air Line Pilots Association
CONTACT: John McIlvenna or Herb Holland, of the AWA MEC office,
+1-602-306-1208 Web site: http://www.alpa.org/
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