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Email from Comair MEC
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October 1, 2006.
This message contains a very important update regarding this weekend’s negotiations.
Your MEC sent the negotiating team back to Washington DC yesterday (Saturday), in an attempt to reach a fair and equitable, consensual deal. It is now Sunday afternoon, and the negotiating team is headed home without agreement between the parties. This weekend ALPA modified our position to be even more competitive. Management again failed to accept such terms. Instead, they insist on imposing terms similar to what you have been previously provided. Although the company did modify their proposal very slightly, it was not enough to make a difference. Your MEC simply cannot accept any agreement that places our First Officers on food stamps. Under the company’s proposal, some First Officer’s would take as much as a 22% pay cut. Your MEC believes that this is unacceptable. Furthermore, the company proposal removes all semblance of a retirement plan, the concept for which we fought so hard to achieve five years ago. Management continues to fail to secure even one Comair employee’s job after date of signing. The terms that management requests remain unacceptable.
Despite what management may say, they have made the decisions which we face today. More than a year ago management, without any input from ALPA, decided on an unsubstantiated cost target. An overreaching cost target which they have tried to impose upon all labor groups at our airline. To date, no labor group has been able to accept such terms. The industry, and our company, is much healthier than it was one year ago. Management refuses to accept this fact. Only when management becomes realistic, will we reach agreement. The company’s attempt to slash its employee’s ability to provide for their families’ security will not be agreed to by your MEC.
Your MEC does not know what moves management may now attempt. Management will continue to try to scare you by threatening your career, in fact, that is all they have done at the bargaining table. With not one job secure, we simply cannot accept slashing our agreement to simply shrink into oblivion.
Your MEC remains available to management should they decide to continue bargaining. If and when this occurs we will inform you immediately.