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- United negotiations: Week Nine – Negotiations resuming this week after a scheduled break.
- Aloha Bankruptcy Update Employee records to be destroyed
United negotiations
Rich Delaney, June 1, 2009 — Due to the shortened Holiday week and the previously scheduled District Executive Board meeting, no face to face negotiations with United took place last week. United negotiation is planned to resume this week.
With United negotiations resuming, our intent is to focus on issues about which we have previously talked. We are attempting to resolve those issues in United negotiation, and move on to other aspects of Members’ proposals.
Specifically, we want to address membership concerns regarding vacation flexibility, including increase use and availability of DAT vacation. Finding more efficient ways to use our Grievance Procedure to resolve member’s complaints and contract violations is also an issue we believe we can complete with a little more discussion in United negotiations.
As United negotiations progress through the proposals for change by both the membership and the Company, District 141 is keeping an eye on the contractual obligation to jointly request the assistance of the National Mediation Board if an agreement is not reached within the next 2 months. The intent of the current language is to encourage both parties to use their best efforts to reach a settlement voluntarily and minimize the use of the government in obtaining an agreement. The future schedule of talks has been set in order to give us the best chance of doing that.
Management Bone-yarding
Rich Delaney, June 1, 2009 — DDiscussions between District 141 and United Airlines concerning the possibility of contracting out the United Express operational work in STL and ORD continued last week. While both stations have been identified by the Company as stations that could be outsourced to a vendor we continue to make the case that the most efficient and productive way to handle this work is to allow United employees to continue to provide the CSR and RSM duties for any and all UAX carriers. Decisions concerning both STL and ORD are expected to be made at the end of June.
Hawaiian
Rich Delaney, June 1, 2009 — DHawaiian Airlines negotiations resumed last week for the first time since a Tentative Agreement was rejected by the membership. The District Lodge 141 website is currently conducting a survey among HAL members to reconfirm the importance of the proposals originally exchanged with the Company. Negotiations will continue in a face to face manner as long as our Negotiating Team believes progress is being made. If, or when, we reach a point that we believe we have exhausted the benefit of direct negotiations we are prepared to request the help of federal mediation, as called for under the Railway Labor Act.
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Aloha bankruptcy update
Certain Employee Records Will Be Destroyed After June 16, 2009
Rich Delaney – On March 13, 2009, the Aloha bankruptcy Trustee announced his intention to destroy certain employee records, training and other paper files. Those records are currently stored in boxes at a storage facility located at 2015
Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96819. Aloha continues to maintain other employment records, including date of hire and duration of service, and has not proposed to abandon those other records at this time.
IAM and AFA objected to the immediate destruction of the stored paper records proposed by the Aloha Trustee. The unions wanted to give former Aloha employees the opportunity to review and copy records before they were destroyed.
At a bankruptcy court hearing on the unions’ objection on April 16, 2009, the bankruptcy judge ordered the Trustee to hold the stored paper records through June 16, 2009 to allow inspection of the records under controlled circumstances.
Any IAM member wanting to review and/or copy his/her Aloha employment records prior to June 16, 2009 should contact District Lodge 141 Assistant General Chairman Randy Kauhane to make the necessary arrangements with the Aloha trustee.
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