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CHAOS™ at LAX
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[08.20.06] -- CHAOS at Northwest Airlines | The History of CHAOStm
[08.25.06] -- United Flight Attendants Stand with Northwest Flight Attendants
[08.25.06] -- Radio Interview By NWA Council 98 LAX Interim President
[08.26.06] -- CHAOS Event at LAX - Video by NABET-CWA
LAX CHAOS Event at Northwest Airlines | Friday, August 25, 2006
All Photos - Copyright © 2006 AFA-CWA, Council 12 Los Angeles. All Rights Reserved.
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"CHAOS is probably the most efficient way of striking that I've ever seen." In 1993, "the AFA did this against Alaska Airlines and it was successful. They threatened it against United, which was so scared by it that they settled." -- Airline Consultant Daryl Jenkins |
Four TV stations, including KTTV Fox 11 News covered Friday's CHAOS informational picketing event at LAX. Flight Attendants from United & Northwest Airlines stood shoulder-to-shoulder at LAX to protest Executive Greed at Northwest Airlines.
CHAOS at United Airlines
[05.17.06] -- PBS Frontline Tells United Airlines Pension Story
[Update 01.18.06] -- After an exhaustive fight in the courts, on Capitol Hill and by leveraging the power of our CHAOS™ campaign, flight attendants have won retirement security with a replacement pension plan. We have a tentative agreement for a defined contribution plan that more than doubles the company's original proposal. Within the context of bankruptcy and today's political climate, this agreement provides us with a foundation of retirement security for all Flight Attendants.
NEVER forget that our CHAOS™ Legislative Track showed us who our supporters in the House of Representatives were. Click the 'VOTING RECORD' in the above-right box to view your Representative's voting record and remember their vote the next time you contact their offices or go to the polls!
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"I will continue to fight for justice for United Airlines employees and retirees.....especially when it comes to companies abusing the bankruptcy process to 'dump and run' on pension promises...." -- Congressman George Miller (D-CA) |
 CHAOS™ on CNN Headline News in 2005
[2005] -- The fight for our pensions were brought to the attention of our passengers at LAX. Support for our fight was overwhelming. The public understood that the fight for our pensions was their fight too.
In recent years, Huffy bicycles, Big Bear supermarkets, Polaroid, Kaiser Aluminum, Bethlehem Steel, WestPoint Stevens, Archibald Candy and United Airlines have terminated their plans and transferred responsibility for them to the PBGC. What worries PBGC officials now is how many other large companies are out there with ailing plans covering tens of thousands of workers.
PBGC director Belt fears the mounting pension crisis could approach the scope of the savings-and-loan debacle that pushed the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. into insolvency in 1989 and cost taxpayers $200 billion.
U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao says the price of doing nothing about reform will be "very bad" for plan sponsors....[Full USA Today Article]
2005 - CWA Officers & Members stood alongside Flight Attendants at events curbside at LAX
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Pension Reality Hits Workers Hard in 2005
Jack Speer - NPR
[12.30.05] -- For workers with traditional pension plans, this was the year many had to face a harsh reality. Two of the major airlines, United and U.S. Airways defaulted on their traditional defined benefit pension plans. Verizon froze its pension. And the strike by transit workers in New York was partly about the fate of their pensions.
A United Airlines flight attendant for 15 years, Ellen Boone will be getting a lot less than she expected from her pension because United says it can no longer afford its obligations to her. Rather than the $2,000 per month she says she would have received, Boone's payout in retirement now will be $286 each month.
Boone is investing and saving through a 401K retirement account. But, at 43, she worries about making up what she's lost.
The shortfall Boone is facing is happening because United turned its pension obligations over to the federal government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. The agency has now assumed the liabilities of more than 3,000 corporate pensions.
This year about a quarter of a million people like Boone saw their pensions turned over to the agency. Private company contributions fund the agency, but its liabilities now exceed its assets. The worry is what will happen if more companies decide they can no longer afford their pension plans and dump them on the government.
AFA's trademarked CHAOS™ employs carefully targeted strikes as part of its strategy. CHAOS™ stands for "Create Havoc Around Our System" and has been successfully employed by AFA at a number of other airlines. Actual strike targets are a closely-guarded secret.
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