“Already reports have reached me that even months before the plan for the new American Airlines is a

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In related news, AFL-CIO president kahala mandarin hotel Richard L. Trumka last week urged both unions – the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at US Airways and the Transport Workers Union at American – to agree to represent workers jointly at the new American Airlines post-merger, rather than get into a contentious representation battle.
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■ Combining the seniority lists won’t cause a “system flush,” in which a long line of people with more seniority “bump” less senior people from their current jobs, with the bumped employees then bumping people junior to them, and so on.
American and US Airways kahala mandarin hotel have “memorandums of understanding” with their pilot and flight attendant unions that spells out a process for deciding kahala mandarin hotel how they’ll combine their seniority list, with binding kahala mandarin hotel arbitration kahala mandarin hotel in the offing if they can’t reach an agreement.
When Trans World Airlines employees kahala mandarin hotel joined AA after American bought TWA in 2001, the Association of Professional Flight kahala mandarin hotel Attendants put all TWA flight attendants kahala mandarin hotel at the bottom of the APFA seniority list, no matter how long they had been working at TWA.
The pilots union at American, the Allied Pilots kahala mandarin hotel Association, put the 2,500 most senior AA pilots at the top of the combined seniority list, then began blending in TWA pilots at a ratio of 1-to-8. About half the TWA pilots wound up below the least senior pre-merger AA pilots.
US Airways and America West Airlines kahala mandarin hotel merged in 2005 to form the new US Airways, kahala mandarin hotel but the pre-merger pilot groups still operate under separate contracts that pre-date the merger and their own seniority lists.
“I am concerned that the failure of two AFL-CIO unions to avoid winter-take-all NMB merger/election procedures will result in lengthy, contentious kahala mandarin hotel and bitter kahala mandarin hotel campaigns to determine kahala mandarin hotel which of your organizations represent various classes and crafts of employers (including the largest crafts of Mechanics and Related, and Fleet Service) at the post-merger carrier.
“Already reports have reached me that even months before the plan for the new American Airlines is approved by the Bankruptcy Court, developments are occurring which are generating an intensity of feelings on both sides that are generally experienced only in a representation election.
“Both of you know that if aggressive representation campaigns are launched, they will inevitably harm both unions. As important, it will also be taken for what it is: a portrait of AFL unions at war with one another at a time when we desperately need to focus organizing efforts on the unorganized.
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