February 27, 2007

US Airways Displays True Colors Toward Fleet Service Workers

Union Proposal to the Company

Company Response to the Union

During negotiations this week in Philadelphia, US Airways presented your IAM negotiating committee a proposal that unmistakably conveys the company’s disrespect and contempt towards its Fleet Service Workers.

While the company enjoys $3 billion dollars in cash reserves it refuses to fairly compensate the very workers responsible for returning the company from the brink of extinction. US Airways executives continue to reap huge salaries and bonuses while they try to inflict further economic hardship upon its workforce.

We have already suffered reduced salaries, benefits and demoralizing corporate leadership. Two years into this merger transition, which produced close to a billion dollars in profit and excessive management bonuses, the company continues to pay bankruptcy wages to workers and retains the potential to outsource over 1,000 of our jobs.

The same company that abused bankruptcy laws to forcibly extract concessions through two bankruptcies and three restructured agreements continues to stuff their pockets on the backs of its dedicated employees. You generated the profits, not management. The airline’s demonstration of executive greed is unconscionable.
Although US Airways’ workers have been the target of corporate abuse, the traveling public, US Airways’ economic lifeblood, are also victims of the company’s poor management and inexcusable customer service.

As the airline industry threatens further consolidation, the US Airways/America West merger serves as an example of what will occur on a broader scale if mega-mergers are not stopped. Because of management’s contempt for workers and indifference toward passengers, the integration of America West /US Airways is farther from being completed today than it was two years ago.

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