Reminders for all Flight Attendants as we enter the New Year

[01.02.10] -- Information can be "overload," especially as we exit the Holidays and enter the New Year. Our focus can now be on what 2010 will bring our Flight Attendant population through our Contract Negotiations. We have held Roadshow dates across the globe at our 14 domicile locations, and conducted Strike Preparations Seminars with an abundance of information for our membership. We took advantage of the Internet and "instantaneous" means of gathering information, and as we march forward, we must commit to remaining connected to each other.

We all have our own reasons for the stake we hold in these Negotiations, and never before have we been so unified in our stance to take back what's rightfully due. Flight Attendants agree that "Enough IS Enough," and we refuse to fall prey to United management's onslaught of subversive, anti-union rhetoric. Here, we republish for you the following numbers and statistics to reinforce our Contract Campaign Slogan that Flight Attendants came up with: "WHATEVER IT TAKES!"

Bankruptcy 2002-2005: Republished Stats from June 2006 AFALAX.org Article

·         7 – Rounds of Furloughs DURING bankruptcy ·         3 – Ratifications of Concessionary Agreements (Cuts in benefits, work rules, and all areas of pay) ·         4 – Base closures (LAS & PHL reduced to “modified co-terminals” and Taipei & Miami closures) ·         1 – Surplus (Miami, which was then subsequently closed) ·         42,000  – Letters from United Airlines employees to the ATSB in support of a loan guarantee for UAL ·         3 – Failed submissions by United management and executives to secure the ATSB loan guarantee ·         3 – Number of times executives and management filed for bonuses (during bankruptcy) using the "Key Employee Retention Program" or, KERP filings (for themselves, of course...DURING bankruptcy) ·         7,500 – Total number of management employees United management sought to reward bonuses to in the FIRST “Key Employee Retention Program” or, KERP filing (for themselves, of course...DURING bankruptcy) ·         320 – Number of management employees who subsequently received those bonuses in the FIRST KERP (7,150 management employees were then EXCLUDED due to AFA’s court-filed objection) ·         $22 Million – The total amount awarded to 320 members of management (knocked down by AFA from an unlimited sum that United management initially sought; again, DURING bankruptcy) ·         600 – Number of management employees United sought to reward bonuses to in the SECOND “Key Employee Retention Program” filing (for themselves, again...) ·         520 – Number of management employees who actually received those KERP bonuses (80 management employees were then EXCLUDED due to AFA’s court-filed objection; again!) ·         $7.5 Million – The total amount awarded to 520 members of management in the SECOND KERP (knocked down a second time by AFA from the $9.5 million management initially sought) ·         400 - Members of United management included in the Management Equity Incentive Plan (MEIP) which was filed in United's Plan Of Reorganization (POR) - yes, this was yet ANOTHER bonus plan for management ·         2,500 - Number of Flight Attendant retirees management tried to dupe out of retiree medical in 2003 ·         120,000 – Number of United employees and retirees whose PENSION PLANS were terminated ·         Too Many To Count – Number of times United over-extended their stay in bankruptcy ·         $440 Million – Amount of Flight Attendant concessions in a one single year alone ·         $5,000,000,000 (yes, that's BILLION) – Amount of total annual concessions from all employee groups combined

Republished From UAL DEN AFA Council 9 E-Newsletter (January 1, 2010 Issue):
 

·         4.6%  – The total cost of the F/A workgroup to the overall cost of doing business for UAL ·         48%  – The total of TWO raises extended to UAL executives POST-BANKRUPTCY ·         $7.1 BILLION  – The total amount taken from employees via bankruptcy maneuvering by UAL ·         36  – The total number of UAL Vice Presidents PRIOR to entering bankruptcy with 100,000 employees ·         35  – The total number of UAL Vice Presidents POST bankruptcy with 70,000 employees ·         44  – The CURRENT total of UAL Vice Presidents with 44,000 employees