Frustration and Fury II

First Quarter Profits, New Customer Service Initiatives, New Aircraft Orders on the Horizon, Excessive Executive Compensation and Corporate Profiteering; the list of recent company press releases, actions, and announcements were prolific these past few weeks and yet when it comes to reaching a fair single agreement for Flight Attendants at US Airways nothing but the same old management song and dance.

It time to turn up the volume on Flight Attendant frustration. No more sub-standard management proposals. No more attacks on our Benefits and FMLA. No more violating our current contracts in the name of synergy.

Mark your calendars for May 8 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm and join your fellow brothers and sisters at ALPA, AFA-CWA, and other groups as labor unites for “Frustration and Fury II”- A Labor Coalition Picket and Protest. Sign the Petition and acknowledge that you will attend! 

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: I will be there

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I will attend the May 8th US Airways Labor Coalition Picket and will add my voice to other in protest of management's continued failure to recognize Flight Attendants as an integral part of the success of US Airways.

No more substandard managment proposals-No more attacks on our Benefits-No more violating our current contracts!

May 8, 2007 Picket Time:11:00-12:30- Buses leave the staging area (Harkins Arcadia 8 Movie Theatre Parking Lot, 40th Street and Thomas Roads) to the picket location at 10:50. Picket Location: 24th St. and Missouri. (North of Camelback Road. Please plan on arriving at the staging area by 10:30am)

Signed by:

Campaign Launched:
April 28, 2007


Background Information

In addition to announcing a first quarter profit this past week, management announced in a press release a sweeping new customer service initiative that they hope will address the myriad of problems that flight attendants and passengers have reported to the company regarding recent and on going service failures. From hiring more customer service agents at airports across the system to increasing the quality and quantity of Buy on Board; management announced promises to win back the loyalty of passengers by making enhancements to the inflight experience.

 

However, the employees of US Airways know the real story. Management is big on promises and short on delivery. Management must wake up to the fact that this merger  and airline will never live up to its full potential until employees and passengers are treated as assets rather than liabilities and until new labor contracts are fairly negotiated and completed. In the meantime, this customer service initiative will likely fall into the bulging trash heap of previous failed management promises and be worth little more than the paper it was written upon.

 

If management is serious about fixing the problems that they have created the need to negotiate a labor contract that addresses the needs of our membership. No more sub-standard management proposals. No more attacks on Benefits and FMLA. No more violating our current contracts in the name of synergy. It time to turn up the volume on Flight Attendant frustration. 

 

US Airways Labor Coalition Picket and Protest

 

US Airways’ Doug Parker will be a panelist and join other CEO’s and senior executives of American, Spirit, Hawaiian, Virgin Atlantic, STAR Alliance, British Airways, jetBlue, Boeing and Airbus for the 16th Annual Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Aviation Symposium’s “Aviation 2007- In Search of New Strategies for Success”, May 8-10, 2007, held at the Biltmore Resort in Phoenix.

US Airways Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and Pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, as well as other labor groups will join in solidarity and protest what employees have dubbed the “US Airways Strategy for Disaster- Continued Failure to Deal with Labor Concerns”.  The protest will be held in conjunction with the aviation symposium event.

Mark your calendars for May 8 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm and join your fellow brothers and sisters at ALPA, AFA-CWA, and other groups as labor unites for “Frustration and Fury II”- A Labor Coalition Picket and Protest.

We are requesting you wear white shirts with blue pants/jeans or uniform. We have arranged bus transportation for all participants from the staging area at Harkins Arcadia Movie Theatre, 40th Street and Thomas Roads. The first bus will depart the parking lot to our picket location at 10:50am. Please plan on arriving at our staging area by 10:30am