More cuts at USAirways

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Well Bad Cat -- hear we are another 10 days later and still silence from UCRAPPA. Mainline AWA pilots will begin to lose their jobs (we hear 20, 30, 40) beginning in September and continuing at that rate until the 175 are gone. Of course, no official info from management and UCRAPPER hasn’t told us anything. We are supposed to have a displacement/downgrade bid here shortly but again, no info. Why, USCABBER doesn’t care about the West. It was created to disenfranchise the West and benefit the East. To stall the implementation of the Nic Award. Wonder how many East mainline FOs are going to take the downgrade to the 190 FO seat at half the pay. My guess, all of them. A scab is a guy who unfairly takes another pilots job. We had negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, but the East never liked the answers. But now that 3 times as many West guys are being furloughed (10% vs. 3%), the East likes that answer. Silence from UCRAPPER. I know one of the AWA Captains being sued by USCABBER. He’s had to fork over $5,000 bucks to join the other 9 pilots to post the $50,000 retainer required by the lawyer to fight the UCAPPER lawsuit. But the AWA pilots are rallying to their defense and all 1700 of us will soon send at least $100.00 for their legal defense. So we start with 170K to help them fight off UCRAPPER. What a waste of time and money. The East wall huggers that let that crap come into existence and the guys that actually voted for them should be having serious second thoughts. Or maybe since you get to keep your job, while West pilots are furloughed, maybe it is working out fine for you after all. Sure looks like the East pilots benefit at the expense of the West pilots.

Furloughs suck but reality is (no matter what the reason) you are still seperate. More flying is being pulled down from west.

3 times as many west are being furloughes is hardly accurate.

Do we really feel sorry for folks that mailed you know what thru the mail and did they not hear of caller ID.
It's a crappy time to be in the airline business.

Hope all goes well for you.