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Here is a company that just made 3.2 billion dollars and just cant seem to make the airline work. Any airline out there today will come up with any excuse to screw labor. UPS makes more than Fed-ex and Southwest yet they are the only ones cutting people out of this group. Contract negotiations are currently going on! MMMMhhhh could these two be related?
UPS to lay off 100 pilots
By Joshua Hammann, Associated Press, 2/7/2003
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) United Parcel Service will lay off 100 pilots by this fall, the Independent Pilots Association said Friday.
According to Capt. Bob Miller, the president of the Louisville-based pilots association, 19 UPS Airlines pilots were given 30-day notices on Friday. Another 81 pilots will be let go, Miller said.
UPS spokesman Mark Giuffre said the company is looking to complete the process by September.
''This decision is really based on two key issues,'' Giuffre said. ''The more modern aircraft only require two pilots. The older aircraft needed three pilots and that has created a surplus for us.''
The other issue is decrease in shipping volume, Giuffre said.
''We didn't really feel that this was a necessary step,'' Miller said. ''Domestic (service) has been a little flat but international has been going very well.''
UPS and the association, which represents 2,520 UPS pilots, has been negotiating a new contract since October 2002.
''This will have some bearing on the negotiations,'' Miller said. ''It's another issue that comes into play.''
The pilots' contract falls under the National Railway Labor Act and does not expire, but reaches what is called an ''amendable date,'' when provisions are subject to change, on Dec. 31. It's not uncommon for contract talks to continue for years past the amendable date. Strikes can be authorized only as a last resort.
Giuffre said the layoffs, which the company has been considering for months, have nothing to do with the current contract situation.
''Over the last year and a half the economy has been relatively stagnant,'' he said. ''We've been working with the union closely to try to minimize this impact. We do not take a decision like reduction in staff very lightly.''
UPS to lay off 100 pilots
By Joshua Hammann, Associated Press, 2/7/2003
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) United Parcel Service will lay off 100 pilots by this fall, the Independent Pilots Association said Friday.
According to Capt. Bob Miller, the president of the Louisville-based pilots association, 19 UPS Airlines pilots were given 30-day notices on Friday. Another 81 pilots will be let go, Miller said.
UPS spokesman Mark Giuffre said the company is looking to complete the process by September.
''This decision is really based on two key issues,'' Giuffre said. ''The more modern aircraft only require two pilots. The older aircraft needed three pilots and that has created a surplus for us.''
The other issue is decrease in shipping volume, Giuffre said.
''We didn't really feel that this was a necessary step,'' Miller said. ''Domestic (service) has been a little flat but international has been going very well.''
UPS and the association, which represents 2,520 UPS pilots, has been negotiating a new contract since October 2002.
''This will have some bearing on the negotiations,'' Miller said. ''It's another issue that comes into play.''
The pilots' contract falls under the National Railway Labor Act and does not expire, but reaches what is called an ''amendable date,'' when provisions are subject to change, on Dec. 31. It's not uncommon for contract talks to continue for years past the amendable date. Strikes can be authorized only as a last resort.
Giuffre said the layoffs, which the company has been considering for months, have nothing to do with the current contract situation.
''Over the last year and a half the economy has been relatively stagnant,'' he said. ''We've been working with the union closely to try to minimize this impact. We do not take a decision like reduction in staff very lightly.''