ALPA
United and the Air Line Pilots Associations met on Thursday, April 9 to begin the negotiations process to revise the current collective bargaining agreement.
Following introductions of the negotiating teams, ALPA provided opening comments. The ALPA negotiating committee members then summarized the changes they intend to propose. United provided opening comments and distributed copies of the Company opener.
The full text of United’s opener is posted below. The main issues United discussed were the need for agreements that delivered in three key areas:
- Competitive wages, benefits, and work rules
- Meaningful incentive compensation tied to measurable and realistic performance metrics
- Flexibility to respond to changes in the marketplace, evolving customer expectations and emerging commercial opportunities
Most Recent Update: March 2, 2010
The respective Negotiating Committees met in session four times since the last update at the end of January. On February 9, the Company presented its counter proposal for Section 9 (Training). The primary issues that continue to be discussed include travel to training, expenses (including expenses for student pilots), the assignment of fill-ins, landing currency lapse penalties, home study, training notification, PC/PT scheduling, rest requirements, and Initial Operating Experience (IOE) trips. The Company also presented language proposals for items related to CLR training, miscellaneous training assignments, and LOA 00-24.
The Committees also met three times during the week of February 22 with mediators from the NMB in attendance. On February 23, the Company presented proposals for Section 7 (Furlough) and Section 10 (Moving). Only a few items remain open in these two sections. ALPA presented a counter proposal for Section 8 (Filling of Vacancies). The Committees continue to discuss items such as reserve manpower requirements, bidding freezes, conditional bidding, TDY month-end transition, bid cancellations, delayed activation, electronic bump notices, bump volunteers, temporary duty, and insufficient bidders. The Tuesday session was concluded with ALPA presenting a counter for the remaining items in Section 7 and Section 10.
On February 24, the Company presented a package proposal to combine the remaining items in Sections 7 and 10. ALPA then presented its counter proposal for Section 9 (Training). Items that remain under discussion include miscellaneous training, pay for landings classes, training pay, electronic notification, travel to training, expenses, fill-ins, landing currency lapse penalties, home study, PC/PT awarding, rest requirements, and IOE assignments.
On February 25, ALPA presented their counter proposal for Section 11 (Vacations) and their counter proposal for package proposal previously presented by the Company. Items discussed related to Section 11 included vacation allocation percentages, vacation pay-out, vacation accrual, vacation cancellation, vacation splits, vacation drops, vacation after training, and vacation postings.
The Committees next scheduled negotiation sessions are scheduled for the week of March 15.