Fri, Nov 03, 2006
The once lofty allure of
an airline pilot career is taking some pretty big hits lately.
Here's yet another... Capt. J.C. Lawson, chairman of the Comair
pilots unit of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l, issued the
following statement after Comair management filed an 1113(c) motion
in bankruptcy court. In essence, the motion requests that the
bankruptcy judge allow the company to repudiate and breach the
pilot labor contract and impose terms of employment.
"I am disappointed that Comair management has elected to
manipulate the bankruptcy laws in this manner, in an attempt to
inflict its concessionary goals on our pilots. All along, we have
taken the position that the best resolution to the company's
present financial challenges is a negotiated, mutually-agreeable
settlement. Management has repeated this mantra in many of its
recent communications to our employees, but the spirit of this
message has been absent from our negotiations.
"Throughout this process, Comair management has pressed for many
millions in annual wage and work rule concessions with very little
flexibility, and little in return for a sacrifice of this
magnitude. Comair has not demonstrated that what it has proposed in
concessions is necessary for its reorganization. We also would hope
that the organization would contemplate job security and other
considerations to make any kind of relinquishment more appropriate
and palatable for our membership. This latest move reveals what we
have experienced since these negotiations began -- that management
has little interest in hearing our suggestions and proposals.
"As Comair pilots, we recognize that we will need to make
sacrifices. We are realistic about what will be necessary and we
want to do our part. It should be noted that Comair pilots
previously agreed to concessions in 2005, further demonstrating our
commitment to our company. However, we should not have to accept
these dictated terms of employment. We don't believe that this is
consistent with the spirit of the law that governs these
negotiations."
Comair is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines and
operates exclusively as a Delta Connection carrier.
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