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Spot the Mistake!
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From the ALPA magazine, the Air Line Pilot of January 2009 in the article titled ALPA Pilot Group Profiles: American Eagle written by Lynn Konwin, ALPA Senior Communications Specialist was the following statement:
"For the American Eagle pilots, the last of three interim contract amendment rounds that were specified in an unusual 16-year agreement has come to a close. The newly ratified agreement contains improvements to work rules and quality-of-life provisions for the 2,800-plus pilots while avoiding contractual concessions - goals that were attained with minimal increase in American Eagle's operating costs."
One (1) year later -
From the ALPA magazine, the Air Line Pilot of January/February 2010 in the article The Pilots of ALPA: American Eagle written by Lynn Konwin, ALPA Senior Communications Specialist was the following statement:
"The American Eagle Master Executive Council has ambitious goals for 2010. Since 1997, Eagle pilots have worked under a long term collective bargaining agreement that had three abbreviated contract amendment rounds pursuant to the last of the amendment rounds, Eagle and the pilots negotiated improvements to pay and work rules.
It is interesting that one (1) year after the amendment round, which was effective January 1, 2009, the improvements in quality of life provisions have disappeared (the AEPA presumes this is due to the rampant re-assignment, junior manning and extensions that are currently occurring) and have been replaced in 2010 by improvements to pay.
All pilots are encouraged to call the Eagle MEC Office and inquire about the pay improvements, which were never mentioned in January 2009, but are now, one year later, admitted to by ALPA.
Hopefully the current Eagle MEC leadership would not be so bold as to try to hoodwink the pilot group into believing that the 1.5% IAI increase for 2010 is the improvements to pay mentioned in the January/February 2010 Air Line Pilot?
Every American Eagle pilot knows that the minimum IAI increase of 1.5% was negotiated by the "Old Guard" in 1997.
Absence the 1997 "Old Guard" negotiating the minimum 1.5% IAI the American Eagle pilots would have got the usual "ALPA New Guard" annual increase - Nothing!
Good Luck in 2013, IF ALPA is still your union representative.
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Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010
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