SPECIAL UAL Local 19 NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE

                            May 31, 2013

 

        Fellow members this week has brought us to a close of the Interest Based Bargaining (IBB) we entered into last year with United Airlines. Throughout this process your committee representatives, Mike Nerren and Jack Harran, along with their counterparts from both subsidiaries have worked in Chicago to try and negotiate a contract that was in the best interest of both groups. The past few weeks we have not been able to solidify agreements in any of the phase two issues related to economics. Repeated attempts to negotiate within a framework that would best serve all parties was met with opposition and changing expectations.           

            What do we need from you? First and foremost, patience while we enter into this next process, whatever it may be. Meanwhile I will be challenging the Benefit differences between the new pilot’s agreement and our Article 16. These areas should have been resolved in the IBB process however, now we have to make sure our contractual rights to companywide programs are addressed accordingly. We will all need to be aware of Scope (Article 1) violations and when infractions take place bring them to a steward’s attention. An example of this is, the announced ramp shutting down the APU’s. Doing our duties as always will be our defense in maintaining the work we currently perform.

             Where do we go from here? That question will be answered in the near future. The processes, as they are, will either take us into traditional Section 6 Negotiations or Mediation. With that said, we have not only a lot of current proposals to move forward on, but also and more importantly, a great respect and relationship with our United committee representatives that we have worked with. This is not the end of the road by any means and we have the fortitude to see the amalgamation of these contracts through to fruition.

 

Thanks for your time and we will have more in depth information on this topic after the next GMM and as information becomes available.

Bob Clever

President Local 19 IBT