ALPA Petitions NMB for an election at Colgan
10-20-2008, 04:08 PM
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ALPA Petitions NMB for an election at Colgan
"To our Fellow Colgan Pilots-
We are writing today to inform you that ALPA has filed for a representation election with the National Mediation Board! In just a couple short months, with all of your help, we were able to collect cards from a strong majority of the pilot group – from all bases, all levels of seniority, all seats and equipment and all backgrounds. We thank you for your support.
We are now entering the second stage of the process: the investigation. The National Mediation Board will soon contact Colgan management for a list of all “Flight Deck Crew Members”, along with signature samples for every pilot. They will use this list and compare it to the cards we have collected to ensure that we have met the minimum 35% + 1 threshold. The NMB will never disclose to Colgan management the number of cards that were submitted, or which pilots signed a card. We expect this part of the process to take approximately four weeks.
Following the card count, we will move to the election process. All Colgan pilots will be able to cast their vote for ALPA by telephone or Internet. The voting instructions, which will include your unique personal identification number (PIN) and voter identification number (VIN), will be mailed to your home address, /as provided by Colgan management./ If you have not updated your address recently, or will be moving in the next few weeks, we urge you to contact Judy Brown ASAP at 703-368-8880 to update your mailing address! It should take two to three weeks to prepare the voting instructions for mailing.
Finally, we have the election period, which will last for three weeks. In order to certify ALPA as our bargaining representative, we need to collect votes from 50% + 1 of all /eligible/ voters. That means that forgetting to vote, or even failing to vote because you never received your voting instructions, will be counted as a NO vote!
As we move through the process, your Organizing Committee will be reaching out to all pilots to update you when the election is ordered, and to confirm that all pilots have received their voting instructions.
We also want to let you know to start looking for more emails from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. During the election campaign we will be utilizing ALPA’s blastmail capabilities to ensure we keep the pilot group updated about events we will be hosting and other developments in the campaign.
We thank you again for all of the questions you have asked about representation by ALPA, and the support of all of you who have signed a card. We are confident that we will win the election, but only if we all work together and stay informed, just like we will need to do when we are ALPA members."
We are writing today to inform you that ALPA has filed for a representation election with the National Mediation Board! In just a couple short months, with all of your help, we were able to collect cards from a strong majority of the pilot group – from all bases, all levels of seniority, all seats and equipment and all backgrounds. We thank you for your support.
We are now entering the second stage of the process: the investigation. The National Mediation Board will soon contact Colgan management for a list of all “Flight Deck Crew Members”, along with signature samples for every pilot. They will use this list and compare it to the cards we have collected to ensure that we have met the minimum 35% + 1 threshold. The NMB will never disclose to Colgan management the number of cards that were submitted, or which pilots signed a card. We expect this part of the process to take approximately four weeks.
Following the card count, we will move to the election process. All Colgan pilots will be able to cast their vote for ALPA by telephone or Internet. The voting instructions, which will include your unique personal identification number (PIN) and voter identification number (VIN), will be mailed to your home address, /as provided by Colgan management./ If you have not updated your address recently, or will be moving in the next few weeks, we urge you to contact Judy Brown ASAP at 703-368-8880 to update your mailing address! It should take two to three weeks to prepare the voting instructions for mailing.
Finally, we have the election period, which will last for three weeks. In order to certify ALPA as our bargaining representative, we need to collect votes from 50% + 1 of all /eligible/ voters. That means that forgetting to vote, or even failing to vote because you never received your voting instructions, will be counted as a NO vote!
As we move through the process, your Organizing Committee will be reaching out to all pilots to update you when the election is ordered, and to confirm that all pilots have received their voting instructions.
We also want to let you know to start looking for more emails from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. During the election campaign we will be utilizing ALPA’s blastmail capabilities to ensure we keep the pilot group updated about events we will be hosting and other developments in the campaign.
We thank you again for all of the questions you have asked about representation by ALPA, and the support of all of you who have signed a card. We are confident that we will win the election, but only if we all work together and stay informed, just like we will need to do when we are ALPA members."
10-20-2008, 09:51 PM
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Congrats on the progress guys...I will gladly merge with your seniority list in a mutually equitable manner if you guys vote in ALPA...good luck and godspeed.
PS> I think we should have a big joint-pilot-group "how ya like us now?" BBQ on Nonconnah if ALPA gets voted in at Colgan!!!!
PS> I think we should have a big joint-pilot-group "how ya like us now?" BBQ on Nonconnah if ALPA gets voted in at Colgan!!!!
10-21-2008, 05:12 AM
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Oh and Colganites, beware of the anti union push that management will throw at you with full force now. They will do something to try and convince you to vote no. Probably threaten you or something saying all the q 400's are going away.
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