US Airways 2005 Annual Report Download - page 16

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Contract
Union Class or Craft Employees(1) Amendable
The Association Passenger Service 3,800 12/31/2011(6)
TWU Dispatch 130 12/31/2009
TWU Flight Simulator Engineers 25 12/31/2011
TWU Flight Crew Training Instructors 50 12/31/2011
(1) Approximate number of active full time equivalent employees covered by the contract as of December 31, 2005.
(2) In contract negotiations. On September 21, 2005, AFA filed for mediation with the National Mediation Board ("NMB"). On December 15, 2005, the
NMB recessed the negotiations indefinitely.
(3) In contract negotiations.
(4) In contract negotiations. On January 19, 2006, TWU filed for mediation with the NMB.
(5) On February 17, 2006, TWU served notice that it is invoking a contract provision that allows it to re-open negotiations only on the issues of wage rates
and hours of service as a result of changes to AWA's loan formerly guaranteed by the ATSB.
(6) On December 5, 2005, US Airways and AWA reached an Interim Transition Agreement with the Association, an alliance created by the IBT, who
formerly represented passenger service employees at AWA, and the Communication Workers of America ("CWA"), who formerly represented
passenger service employees at US Airways. Pursuant to the Interim Transition Agreement, US Airways and AWA voluntarily recognized the
Association as the collective bargaining representative of the AWA and US Airways passenger service employees. The parties agreed that AWA
passenger service employees would transition to the US Airways-CWA collective bargaining agreement and thus AWA's separate contract negotiations
with IBT were terminated.
Since the merger, the Company has been in the process of integrating the labor unions of its two principal airline subsidiaries. On September 23, 2005,
US Airways and AWA reached a Transition Agreement with ALPA governing many merger-related aspects of the parties' relationship until there is a single
collective bargaining agreement covering all pilots. US Airways and AWA currently are negotiating the single collective bargaining agreement with ALPA.
On December 5, 2005, US Airways and AWA reached an Interim Transition Agreement with the Association as described above in note (5). US Airways
and AWA currently are negotiating rules to transition the AWA passenger service employees to the US Airways-CWA collective bargaining agreement.
On January 18, 2006, US Airways and AWA reached a transition agreement with AFA governing many merger-related aspects of the parties' relationship
until there is a single collective bargaining agreement covering all flight attendants. US Airways and AWA currently are negotiating the single collective
bargaining agreement with AFA.
On January 30, 2006, the NMB issued a finding that US Airways and AWA are a single transportation system for representation purposes for mechanics
and related employees, fleet service personnel and maintenance training specialists.
Although there are few remaining employee groups who could engage in organization efforts, we cannot predict the outcome of any future efforts to
organize those remaining employees or the terms of any future labor agreements or the effect, if any, on US Airways' or AWA's operations or financial
performance. For more discussion, see Item 1A "Risk Factors — Risk Factors Relating to the Company and Industry Related Risks — Union disputes,
employee strikes and other labor-related disruptions may adversely affect our operations."
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