US Airways pilots choose new union
Rank-and-file US Airways pilots unseated the Air Line Pilots Association as their union representative and replace it with an upstart labor group. According to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2,723 pilots voted to leave ALPA for the newly formed US Airline Pilots Association, based in Charlotte, N.C. There were 2,254, votes to keep ALPA, which represents more than 56,000 pilots at 41 airlines. The National Mediation Board tallied the votes and announced the results Thursday afternoon. “It’s going to be extremely difficult for me personally and professionally to watch what happens to this pilot group now,” US Airways pilots union chairman Jack Stephan told the Post-Gazette. “Industry consolidation is inevitable, and the economy is slowing. I believe that these challenges will be too much to ask of an untested, under-funded union.” Stephen Bradford, interim president of the new US Airline Pilots Association, said in a release that USAPA “will approach management in a more businesslike fashion to address the deficiencies of the collective US Airways pilots’ contracts, both East and West.”
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