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CWA Fights Bankrupt US Airways' Demands for Deep Cuts
CWA is fighting back against US Airways' demands to slash salaries, benefits and working conditions
for passenger service agents and flight attendants.
US Airways management has petitioned the bankruptcy court to impose "interim relief" pay cuts of 23 percent and other extreme givebacks on nearly all union workers while it continues to press for even more concessions.
The airline filed for bankruptcy protection Sept. 12. Hearings are scheduled over the next several weeks. CWA and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, along with the air line pilots and machinists unions, were appointed to the creditors committee, which will be an important part of the decision-making process.
As the CWA News went to press, the CWA local presidents' bargaining committee, representing passenger service agents, was preparing for three days of talks with US Airways management over its demands for the devastating wage and benefit cuts.
At the same time, AFA-CWA's negotiating committee continued to meet, working on its response to management's "excessive and inequitable" demands as the bankruptcy process went forward.
Agents and flight attendants have called on management to spell out the non-labor cost savings and cost savings from management and administrative employees, as well as changes to the executive compensation plan that they say must be part of the airline's restructuring.
To date, management has been specific about concessions from union-represented employees, proposing to cut agents' take-home pay by almost half. Yet the company has shown no evidence that it will lead by example, nor has management shown that it has a plan to successfully emerge from bankruptcy, the local presidents say.
CWA represents 6,000 active and 3,000 furloughed passenger service agents at US Airways; AFA-CWA represents 5,200 flight attendants.
for passenger service agents and flight attendants.
US Airways management has petitioned the bankruptcy court to impose "interim relief" pay cuts of 23 percent and other extreme givebacks on nearly all union workers while it continues to press for even more concessions.
The airline filed for bankruptcy protection Sept. 12. Hearings are scheduled over the next several weeks. CWA and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, along with the air line pilots and machinists unions, were appointed to the creditors committee, which will be an important part of the decision-making process.
As the CWA News went to press, the CWA local presidents' bargaining committee, representing passenger service agents, was preparing for three days of talks with US Airways management over its demands for the devastating wage and benefit cuts.
At the same time, AFA-CWA's negotiating committee continued to meet, working on its response to management's "excessive and inequitable" demands as the bankruptcy process went forward.
Agents and flight attendants have called on management to spell out the non-labor cost savings and cost savings from management and administrative employees, as well as changes to the executive compensation plan that they say must be part of the airline's restructuring.
To date, management has been specific about concessions from union-represented employees, proposing to cut agents' take-home pay by almost half. Yet the company has shown no evidence that it will lead by example, nor has management shown that it has a plan to successfully emerge from bankruptcy, the local presidents say.
CWA represents 6,000 active and 3,000 furloughed passenger service agents at US Airways; AFA-CWA represents 5,200 flight attendants.