Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Airline Employees Take One For The Team
It's an important step, one that Frontier Airlines hopes will
help keep it in business as the carrier slogs through Chapter 11
bankruptcy. Frontier announced this week members of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union "overwhelmingly" voted
to support temporary wage and benefit concessions requested by the
company.
The Teamsters represent about 430 people at Frontier including
mechanics and related workers, tool room employees, aircraft
appearance agents and material specialists. As ANN reported, union
leadership agreed to the tentative terms late last month.
"This outcome clearly represents the incredible support and
confidence level that our employees have in Frontier," said
Frontier Chief Operating Officer, Chris Collins. "These employees
are the individuals who ensure that we are operating a safe and
reliable airline everyday. I not only want to thank them but I
would also like to thank the Teamsters for their support throughout
this process."
"We are pleased that our members have supported the short term
concessions to contribute to the long term success of Frontier,"
said Matthew Fazakas, President and Principal Office of Teamsters
Local 961. "We believe that their support is another indication of
the positive relationship that we have built with Frontier."
Frontier asked all of its employees, both represented and
non-represented, to take temporary wage and benefit concessions to
help the airline as it attempts to, among other things, secure
debtor in possession financing. Frontier's other two unions -- the
Frontier Airlines Pilots Association (FAPA) and the Transportation
Workers Union (TWU) -- ratified agreements for those concessions
two weeks ago.
At the beginning of May, Menke and other members of the
executive management team also agreed to up to 20% in wage and
benefits concessions. As a condition of the concessions, Frontier
plans to reexamine all the pay cuts in September... based on the
developing financial condition of the company and current economic
conditions.
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