UAL MEC August 1, 2008
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UAL MEC August 1, 2008
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August 1, 2008
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear . . . your victory will not stand in doubt.”
Dear Fellow Pilots:
As you are aware, United filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday, a copy of which is attached, seeking an injunction against ALPA and “certain pilots” citing “deliberate, organized and unlawful job actions that resulted in hundreds of flights being canceled and impacted thousands of customers and employees.”
Let me say this about the lawsuit: first, ALPA’s attorneys are vigorously defending this litigation, and the MEC stands by its statement that United’s decision to take this step will not promote constructive labor relations. Let me state unequivocally, there is no deliberate, organized or unlawful job action by ALPA. The United MEC and its officers do not condone and strongly oppose any activities on the part of United pilots, either individually or collectively, that are alleged to disrupt operations, including calling in sick when you are not ill and refusing to accept junior/senior manning. Second, if canceled flights and impacted customers and employees are gauges of warranted suits, then United should have sued itself long ago.
We take these allegations by the company very seriously. We have attempted on numerous occasions to outline United’s deficiencies in properly manning and managing this airline. We have repeatedly offered United relief, guidance and assistance in running our airline in a manner that is beneficial to all – customers, employees and pilots – and that would return United to its preeminent status. This management group has determined, however, that it only can manage our airline within the court system – first in bankruptcy and now in federal court. We will not allow the Company to use the courts as a weapon to intimidate us as we communicate the inadequacies and inability of United’s current management to our pilots, to the public or to the company. Nobody, neither within the company nor outside, can deny this inexplicable fact of corporate mismanagement as our customers, our ratings and our stock price bear out. This management, led by the incompetent Glenn Tilton, does not know how to run an airline. This suit is merely a thinly-veiled attempt to divert attention and direct the blame away from the true source of United’s problems: United’s spectacularly inept management.
The management of United Airlines is the source of its own problems. Diverting the blame toward ALPA is just another attempt to divide the employee groups and cover up management’s failures.
Fraternally,
Captain Steve Wallach
Chairman, United MEC
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August 1, 2008
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear . . . your victory will not stand in doubt.”
Dear Fellow Pilots:
As you are aware, United filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday, a copy of which is attached, seeking an injunction against ALPA and “certain pilots” citing “deliberate, organized and unlawful job actions that resulted in hundreds of flights being canceled and impacted thousands of customers and employees.”
Let me say this about the lawsuit: first, ALPA’s attorneys are vigorously defending this litigation, and the MEC stands by its statement that United’s decision to take this step will not promote constructive labor relations. Let me state unequivocally, there is no deliberate, organized or unlawful job action by ALPA. The United MEC and its officers do not condone and strongly oppose any activities on the part of United pilots, either individually or collectively, that are alleged to disrupt operations, including calling in sick when you are not ill and refusing to accept junior/senior manning. Second, if canceled flights and impacted customers and employees are gauges of warranted suits, then United should have sued itself long ago.
We take these allegations by the company very seriously. We have attempted on numerous occasions to outline United’s deficiencies in properly manning and managing this airline. We have repeatedly offered United relief, guidance and assistance in running our airline in a manner that is beneficial to all – customers, employees and pilots – and that would return United to its preeminent status. This management group has determined, however, that it only can manage our airline within the court system – first in bankruptcy and now in federal court. We will not allow the Company to use the courts as a weapon to intimidate us as we communicate the inadequacies and inability of United’s current management to our pilots, to the public or to the company. Nobody, neither within the company nor outside, can deny this inexplicable fact of corporate mismanagement as our customers, our ratings and our stock price bear out. This management, led by the incompetent Glenn Tilton, does not know how to run an airline. This suit is merely a thinly-veiled attempt to divert attention and direct the blame away from the true source of United’s problems: United’s spectacularly inept management.
The management of United Airlines is the source of its own problems. Diverting the blame toward ALPA is just another attempt to divide the employee groups and cover up management’s failures.
Fraternally,
Captain Steve Wallach
Chairman, United MEC
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