Sat, Sep 12, 2009
98 Percent Voted To Support The Strike Ballot
Hawaiian Airlines pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots
Association, International (ALPA), announced Friday that they have
voted to authorize their elected union representatives to conduct a
lawful withdrawal of service if contract talks do not result in a
new collective bargaining agreement. An overwhelming 98 percent of
the pilots responding voted to support the strike ballot, which
opened on August 25.
“This vote should be a wake-up call to Hawaiian Airlines
management,” said Captain Eric Sampson, chairman of the ALPA
unit at Hawaiian Airlines. “There has never been a strike in
the 80-year history of our airline, and we don’t want one
now. But if that’s what it takes to win a fair and reasonable
contract, our pilots have told us loud and clear that they’re
ready to take that final step.”
The strike vote does not mean that
a strike is imminent. It authorizes the pilot leadership to begin a
strike if and when they deem it necessary once the National
Mediation Board (NMB) declares an impasse and releases the parties
to self-help. Negotiators for ALPA and Hawaiian are scheduled to
meet with a federal mediator October 12 in Washington, DC. The two
sides also met this week in Honolulu without the mediator present
and could do so again prior to the October NMB session.
“The 98 percent approval rating is outstanding and one of
the largest margins of support ALPA has ever seen. We deeply
appreciate every Hawaiian pilot who stood up and made a statement
when it counted, and we hope the next vote we take is one to ratify
a new collective bargaining agreement,” Sampson said.
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