Tentative Agreement Passes Membership Ratification
The Tentative Agreement reached last month has been ratified with 84.26% of the pilots who voted casting their ballot in favor of the new contract. A total of 1,264 pilots, or 95.4% of pilots eligible to vote, did so. The official ballot results are attached to this Update.

The MEC will immediately begin the process of implementing the new contract. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 09-05, found in the back of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, provides a timeline for the implementation of our new work rules, especially those regarding monthly BBH and reserve line awards, training and scheduling. We will continue to keep you updated as changes are phased in and ask for your patience while we transition to our new CBA.

 

That is a great turn out, you all should be proud of that!~

 

Can someone post the contract? Or give highlights?

Thanks

 

Not a perfect contract, but in these times it gives the F/O's a 22% raise over four years and the CA's almost 18% and the "A" plan remains intact for those on the property. New pay scales bring CA's up to about 182/hr by 2013.

 

Here it is..................
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...s-members.html

 

Now that this mess is over for the time being is there much chance of call backs of furloughs? I know FA's are only lookin at tempo call backs. Hopefully we can now see some movement!

Also for the senior people is there much drive built in here to retire after the ratification or will this contract actually slow retirements down more?

 

Once the "stimulus" spending really kicks in, that might almost keep up with inflation... if we're lucky.

 

FAs are indeed looking at tempo recalls, but they may furlough even more FAs at the conclusion of the Summer schedule. We've been hearing rumors of 50 more pilots furloughs this coming Fall. Some of that may be mitigated by the company offering another round of early outs. But, Angle Lake will have to sweeten the pot for more senior captains to retire early.

There is no incentive for the 60+ crowd or the pilots with almost 30 years of service to retire at this time. If the company wants their highest pilot cost units to leave, they need to:
1) Offer at least $100K again (actually up it to $130K to 150K range).
2) Do not penalize their lump sum 7% a year for leaving prior to having
30 years of service.
3) Maybe offer up to a year of health care coverage.

If they would take all three steps above, you'd see a big number of captains retire. As is, we've been hearing that about 40 captains have expressed interest in an early retirement offer.

Again, the tidbit about furloughs & early outs is through rumors & conjecture. So, take it with a grain of salt.

 

One of these days the pilots without an "A Plan" will outnumber you. For your collective sakes, I hope that they have short memories.
Good luck.
fbh

 

This furloughed AS pilot will never forget how ALPA screwed me.......

Combine us with the new hires who wil not have a A plan, and our numbers will be bigger over time. You old geezers better hope you're retired and gone when this happens cause we'll out vote your old a$$ess.....