AFA: Negotiations Updates
August 2010
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August 31, 2010
United and AFA negotiators met in Chicago with NMB mediator John Livingood on August 23-25. The agenda included Section 15 (Training and Meetings), 17 (Seniority), 21 (Reduction in Personnel), 22 (Filling of Vacancies), and 24 (Moving Expenses). The parties also...
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July 2010
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July 26, 2010
United and AFA negotiators met in Chicago with NMB mediator John Livingood on July 20-22. The agenda included sick leave, vacation, deadheading and personal time off (“PTO” or “GWOP”). The parties also engaged in some follow-up discussion of layover hotels....
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June 2010
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June 18, 2010
United and AFA negotiated in Chicago on Tuesday-Thursday, June 15-17, 2010. During the first day, the parties exchanged information and handled some clean-up issues. We were able to agree to a small change to the Critical Coverage process that should...
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April 2010
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April 28, 2010
The United and AFA Negotiating Committees met in Chicago with mediator John Livingood on April 20-22. The parties resolved some open issues in the area of uniforms, and also tentatively agreed to minor clarifications in the Exchange Rates Side Letter...
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April 5, 2010
On April 3, the following letter was sent to Greg Davidowitch, President of the United Master Executive Council for the AFA regarding negotiations between United and the AFA. Gregory E. Davidowitch, President United Master Executive Council Association of Flight Attendants...
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March 2010
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March 23, 2010
The United and AFA Negotiating Committees met in Chicago with mediator John Livingood on March 16-18. The agenda was Sec. 2 (Definitions), miscellaneous letters of agreement at the end of Sec. 35, a review of AFA’s pay proposal in Sec....
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March 2, 2010
The United and AFA Negotiating Committees met in Chicago with mediator John Livingood on Feb. 23-25 to discuss Sections 10 (Reserve Scheduling Procedures), 12 (International Operation), and 24 (Moving Expenses). We are disappointed that there was no progress in reaching...
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February 2010
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February 9, 2010
The United and AFA Negotiating Committees met in mediated negotiations January 19 through 21 in Chicago. Discussions focused on Sections 7 (Hours of Service and Contractual Legalities), 8 (Minimum Pay and Credit) and 9 (Flight Assignments and Scheduling Procedures). In...
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January 2010
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January 18, 2010
Negotiations are scheduled to continue January 19-21 with Mediator John Livingood....
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January 7, 2010
January 7, 2010 is the amenable date for the AFA contract. It is important to note that airline labor contracts do not expire. The amendable date is simply the date that contracts may be amended, and the existing contract terms...
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December 2009
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December 18, 2009
United and AFA negotiated December 14-16, with NMB mediator John Livingood present. We discussed Sections 6 (Expenses, Transportation and Lodging), 11 (Deadheading), 13 (Military Airlift Command), 15 (Training), 18 (Vacations), 21 (Reduction in Personnel), 26 (Grievance Procedures), 27 (System Board...
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November 2009
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November 25, 2009
United, AFA and NMB mediator John Livingood met in Chicago Nov. 16-19. The agenda primarily involved Company proposals on Benefits (inclusive of Sections 19, 33 and 34 of the current Agreement), Satellite Domiciles, a Preferential Bidding System (PBS), and Sections...
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November 2, 2009
The United and AFA negotiating committees met in Chicago October 27-29. NMB Mediator John Livingood attended all three days, and NMB Senior Mediator Patricia Sims attended a day and a half. Most of the negotiations focused on open issues in...
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October 2009
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October 5, 2009
The United and AFA Negotiating Committees met separately with Senior Mediator Patricia Sims and Mediator John Livingood of the NMB in Washington, D.C. on September 9 and 10. Negotiations between the parties will resume on October 27 in Chicago, and...
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August 2009
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August 28, 2009
Since the last update, United and AFA discussed Scope and certain stand-alone Side Letters at the end of Sec. 35. The parties did not make progress on Scope, but with respect to approximately 30 stand-alone Side Letters, United and AFA...
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August 24, 2009
Last week, United and AFA discussed Scope and certain stand-alone Letters of Agreement at the end of Sec. 35. The parties did not make progress on Scope, but with respect to about 30 of the stand-alone Letters, United and AFA...
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August 14, 2009
United and AFA met three days each week since our last negotiations update. During this period the parties extensively discussed and explained their proposals in a number of critical and complex sections of the contract: Section 7 (Hours of Service...
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July 2009
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July 28, 2009
In recent weeks, the United and AFA negotiating committees exchanged and discussed their proposals for changes to the following sections of the contract: Section 6 (Expenses, Transportation and Lodging), 8 (Minimum Pay and Credit), 11 (Deadheading), 15 (Training and Meetings),...
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June 2009
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June 23, 2009
Over the past two weeks of bargaining, United's and AFA’s negotiating committees discussed their proposals for Section 4 (General) and related hotel issues, Section 13 (Military Airlift Command), Section 16 (Uniforms), Section 21 (Reduction in Personnel), Section 22 (Filling of...
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June 5, 2009
Over the past three weeks of bargaining, United and AFA discussed their proposals in Section 3 (Union Activity), Section 4 (General), Section 6 (relating only to hotels), the Hotel Standards Letter of Agreement, Section 17 (Seniority), Section 20 (Physical Examinations),...
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May 2009
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May 16, 2009
We have completed the first two weeks of negotiations with the AFA. In the first week, we reached tentative agreement on three non-controversial sections; Sections 14, 28 and 32. We also exchanged proposals on an additional eight sections (Sections 1-4,...
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