United Airlines Negotiations : Unions : PAFCA

• The Professional Airline Flight Control Association (PAFCA) represents approximately 187 United dispatchers.
• The current PAFCA collective bargaining agreement becomes amendable on January 1, 2010. Current contract terms remain in effect throughout negotiations.
• Negotiations with PAFCA began on April 10, approximately nine months before the current CBA becomes amendable.
• The full text of United's opener is posted below.

On January 28, United and PAFCA jointly requested the assistance of the National Mediation Board. The NMB has assigned Mediator Victoria Gray to assist the parties in these negotiations. Ms. Gray joined the NMB staff in 2009. Prior to joining the NMB, Ms. Gray had over 40 years of experience in labor relations. Ms. Gray’s bio can be found on the NMB's web site at http://www.nmb.gov/directory/gray-victoria_bio.html.

The first mediated discussions between the parties are scheduled for April 27 through 29 in Chicago. Another round of talks are scheduled with Mediator Gray’s assistance May 25-27 in the National Mediation Board’s offices in Washington, D.C. The parties are also considering whether additional sessions without the Mediator would be productive.