Wed, Sep 23, 2009
Final Bargaining Session Set For Late October
Teamsters Local 1108 has given a
green light to a strike authorization vote among its members who
are the pilots employed by Flight Options LLC, the Cleveland-based
provider of luxury business jet fractional ownership and charter
programs. The Teamsters and Flight Options management have been in
negotiations since June 2006 over a first contract for pilots.
The parties met in Washington, D.C. at the offices of the
National Mediation Board (NMB) last week in an attempt to reach a
complete agreement on remaining compensation, benefit and work rule
provisions. No agreement was reached and the federal mediator
assigned to the case has scheduled a final bargaining session
October 26-31.
Under the Railway Labor Act, the NMB, the federal agency charged
with administering that federal labor law, may declare that its
mediation efforts failed to produce an agreement resulting in a
proffer of voluntary binding arbitration as a last resort. If
either management or the labor organization rejects the arbitration
proffer, a 30-day cooling offer period is imposed, after which time
the labor organization is free to strike the carrier absent
intervention by the president of the United States.
"The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters stands behind the Flight Options pilots 100 percent,"
said Capt. David Bourne, Teamsters Airline Division Director.
"These negotiations have been going on for over three years. It's
time our members get the contract they deserve."
Strike authorization ballots were sent to the union's membership
Monday. Ballots will be counted at Local 1108's Richmond Heights,
Ohio, offices on October 19.
"Local 1108 is ready to make a fair agreement with Flight
Options management," said Capt. Mat Slinghoff, Local 1108
President. "A fair agreement requires industry standard scope
protections, benefit security and compensation increases pilots
need."
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