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Collective Bargaining
As of December 31, 2013, we had 18,358 full-time equivalent employees. Approximately 49% of
these employees were represented by unions, including the employee groups listed in the table below.
Notwithstanding the completion of the ExpressJet Combination, ExpressJet’s employee groups continue
to be represented by those unions who provided representation prior to the ExpressJet Combination.
Accordingly, the following table refers to ExpressJet’s employee groups based upon their union
affiliations prior to the ExpressJet Combination.
Approximate
Number of
Active Employees Status of
Employee Group Represented Representatives Agreement
Atlantic Southeast Pilots ........ 1,800 Air Line Pilots Association Amendable
International
Atlantic Southeast Flight
Attendants ................ 1,075 International Association of Amendable
Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Atlantic Southeast Flight
Controllers ................ 60 Transport Workers Union of Amendable
America
Atlantic Southeast Mechanics .... 700 International Brotherhood of Amendable
Teamsters
Atlantic Southeast Stock Clerks . . . 70 International Brotherhood of Amendable
Teamsters
ExpressJet Delaware Pilots ...... 2,900 Air Line Pilots Association Amendable
International
ExpressJet Delaware Flight
Attendants ................ 1,200 International Association of Amendable
Machinists and Aerospace Workers
ExpressJet Delaware Mechanics . . 1,000 International Brotherhood of Amendable
Teamsters
ExpressJet Delaware Dispatchers . 85 Transport Workers Union of Amendable
America
ExpressJet Delaware Stock Clerks . 100 International Brotherhood of Amendable
Teamsters
The successful combination of ExpressJet Delaware and Atlantic Southeast and achievement of the
anticipated benefits of our acquisition of ExpressJet Delaware will depend significantly on the results of
our efforts to integrate the employee groups of Atlantic Southeast and ExpressJet Delaware and on
maintaining productive employee relations. During December 2013, the Airline Pilots Association
International (‘‘ALPA’’), which represents the Atlantic Southeast pilot and ExpressJet Delaware pilot
groups, conducted a vote of the two employee groups, seeking approval of a joint collective bargaining
agreement that ExpressJet had negotiated with ALPA representatives. The two employee groups
rejected the joint collective bargaining agreement, which resulted in the agreements with those
employee groups remaining amendable as indicated in the foregoing table. The decision of those
employee groups to reject the joint collective bargaining agreement will preclude us from realizing
some of the savings we had hoped to achieve through the ExpressJet Combination. ExpressJet intends
to resume negotiations with ALPA in an effort to negotiate an acceptable agreement.
The integration of the workforces of ExpressJet Delaware and Atlantic Southeast has been, and we
anticipate it will continue to be, challenging. Completing the integration of the workforces of the
two airlines will require the resolution of potentially difficult issues relating to representation of various
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