Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group Subsidiaries Overwhelming Reject Unionization Drive
Wednesday April 7, 1:54 pm ET
PHOENIX, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA - News) announced today that it had received the results of an election by Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group subsidiaries in which the dispatchers at Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines and Air Midwest overwhelmingly rejected a unionization drive advanced by the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The election was conducted by the National Mediation Board. Of the 43 eligible voters, 32 (74%) chose not to unionize and not to be represented by the TWU.
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"Mesa has strived to maintain a close relationship with its dispatchers based on open communication and "out of the box" employee initiatives. We believe the merits of our approach were reflected in this vote," said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "More importantly, Mesa's dispatchers have rejected the standard industry labor model, which we believe to be broken, that has unfortunately resulted in furloughs, concessions and overall employee dissatisfaction at many carriers. Our dispatchers have instead embraced an incentive based compensation and benefit package tied directly to the company's performance that combines competitive wages with multiple bonus programs and stock options. We would like to thank all of our dispatchers for their support. With this vote of confidence, we can continue to offer opportunity and job security to our dispatchers while working together to create and maintain an industry leading atmosphere aimed at achieving our common goals," noted Ornstein.
This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected. The Company does not intend to update these forward-looking statements prior to its next required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mesa currently operates 169 aircraft with over 1,000 daily system departures to over 160 cities, 42 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. It operates in the West and Midwest as America West Express; the Midwest and East as US Airways Express; in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles as United Express; in Kansas City with Midwest Express and in New Mexico and Texas as Mesa Airlines. The Company, which was founded in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 4,400 employees. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.
Wednesday April 7, 1:54 pm ET
PHOENIX, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA - News) announced today that it had received the results of an election by Flight Dispatchers at Mesa Air Group subsidiaries in which the dispatchers at Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines and Air Midwest overwhelmingly rejected a unionization drive advanced by the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The election was conducted by the National Mediation Board. Of the 43 eligible voters, 32 (74%) chose not to unionize and not to be represented by the TWU.
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"Mesa has strived to maintain a close relationship with its dispatchers based on open communication and "out of the box" employee initiatives. We believe the merits of our approach were reflected in this vote," said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "More importantly, Mesa's dispatchers have rejected the standard industry labor model, which we believe to be broken, that has unfortunately resulted in furloughs, concessions and overall employee dissatisfaction at many carriers. Our dispatchers have instead embraced an incentive based compensation and benefit package tied directly to the company's performance that combines competitive wages with multiple bonus programs and stock options. We would like to thank all of our dispatchers for their support. With this vote of confidence, we can continue to offer opportunity and job security to our dispatchers while working together to create and maintain an industry leading atmosphere aimed at achieving our common goals," noted Ornstein.
This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected. The Company does not intend to update these forward-looking statements prior to its next required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mesa currently operates 169 aircraft with over 1,000 daily system departures to over 160 cities, 42 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. It operates in the West and Midwest as America West Express; the Midwest and East as US Airways Express; in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles as United Express; in Kansas City with Midwest Express and in New Mexico and Texas as Mesa Airlines. The Company, which was founded in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 4,400 employees. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.
