The third consecutive week of meetings between the parties began on Monday January 21, 2013 with an internal union caucus. The purpose of the caucus was to discuss the activity of the previous two weeks and to assess the progress made to date. In addition, the negotiating committee discussed the recommendation of the seniority integration […]
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Negotiations Update The parties met for a second consecutive week of bargaining this week in Chicago. We tackled some of the more substantive phase 1 portions of the agreements. The articles discussed were Article 3 – Covered Crafts, Classifications, and Bid Areas; Article 4 – Seniority; Article 13 – Training; Article 7 – Hours of
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The negotiating committee began year 2013 with formal meetings the week of January 7th. These meetings started off with a day and a half of training courtesy of the National Mediation Board. This Board required training for the expedited facilitated problem solving, or FPS, process placed the company and the union in the same room
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Seniority Integration Committee Update The Seniority Committee met this week to discuss the remaining aspects of combining the three company seniority lists. The task before the committee is to create recommendations regarding seniority integration and its impact on the various contract articles of a Joint CBA. The committee decided on 2 representatives, (1 sUA and
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On November 13th the Airline Division hosted a meeting of Principal Officers, Business Agents and the ten rank and file members of the National Seniority Integration Committee representing the new United Airlines. The Airline Division called the meeting in order to resolve disagreements among the National SIC over what method should be used to integrate
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OJT Agreement Frequently Asked Questions. What is the MOU? This Memorandum of Understanding was negotiated to help work out some of the training issue created by the Resource Utilization Letter of Interpretation (LOI) that was agreed upon earlier this year. The LOI created training deficiencies in the sub areas that needed to be more clearly
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Survey fielded to assist the National Seniority Integration Committee The Airline Division has fielded a survey and it is now available at: http://surveygoldplus.com/s/2B85473BE6084779/35.htm. The reason for the survey is to offer the entire membership the chance to weigh in on the different ideas suggested by rank and file members of the national seniority integration committee.
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Airline Division meets with new Senior VP Tech Ops On October 9th, Airline Division Director David Bourne, Attorney Ed Gleason, and Representatives Clacy Griswold, Paul Alves and Bob Fisher met with Greg Hart, the new Senior VP of Tech Ops along with Doug McKeen and Mike Bonds. This meeting was solely for the purpose of
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Parties Have Discussion with NMB On Thursday August 30th, the parties met with National Mediation Board member Linda Puchala and Senior Mediator Pat Sims. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the process for moving forward with expedited negotiations. Among the items discussed were the protocol agreement and training for the negotiating committee. Board
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