United Airlines 2010 Annual Report Download - page 15

Employees
As of December 31, 2010, UAL, including its subsidiaries, had approximately 86,000 active employees.
Approximately 72% of UAL’s employees were represented by various U.S. labor organizations as of
December 31, 2010. As of December 31, 2010, United had approximately 46,000 active employees and
Continental had approximately 40,000 active employees. The following table reflects the Company’s employee
groups, number of employees per employee group, representative union for each of United’s and Continental’s
employee groups, and amendable date for each employee group’s collective bargaining agreement:
United Employee Group
Number of
Employees Union
Contract Open
for Amendment
Public Contact/Ramp & Stores/Food Service
Employees/Security Officers/Maintenance
Instructors/Fleet Technical Instructors
14,471 International Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers (“IAM”)
January 2010
Flight Attendants 12,755 Association of Flight Attendants—
Communication Workers of America
(“AFA”)
January 2010
Pilots 5,605 Air Line Pilots Association—
International (“ALPA”)
January 2010
Mechanics & Related 4,728 International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (“Teamsters”)
January 2010
Engineers 195 International Federation of
Professional and Technical Engineers
(“IFPTE”)
January 2010
Dispatchers 158 Professional Airline Flight Control
Association (“PAFCA”)
January 2010
Continental Employee Group
Flight Attendants 8,153 IAM December 2009
Fleet Service Employees 6,918 Teamsters December 2012
Pilots 4,273 ALPA December 2008
Mechanics 3,637 Teamsters December 2012
Continental Micronesia, Inc. (“CMI”) Fleet
and Passenger Service Employees 544 Teamsters November 2011
CMI Flight Attendants 246 IAM December 2010
Dispatchers 109 Transport Workers Union (“TWU”) December 2013
CMI Mechanics 115 Teamsters December 2009
Flight Simulator Technicians 40 TWU December 2012
Collective bargaining agreements are negotiated under the RLA, which governs labor relations in the air
transportation industry. Such agreements typically do not contain an expiration date and instead specify an
amendable date, upon which the contract is considered “open for amendment.” Contracts remain in effect while
new agreements are negotiated. During the negotiation period, both the Company and the negotiating union are
required to maintain the status quo.
The process for integrating the labor groups of United and Continental is governed by a combination of the
RLA, the McCaskill-Bond Amendment, and where applicable, the existing provisions of United’s and
Continental’s collective bargaining agreements and union policies. Under the RLA, the National Mediation
Board (“NMB”) has exclusive authority to resolve union representation disputes arising out of airline mergers.
Under the McCaskill-Bond Amendment, “fair and equitable” integration of seniority lists is required, including
arbitration where the interested parties cannot reach a consensual agreement. Pending operational integration, the
Company will apply the terms of the existing collective bargaining agreements unless other terms have been
negotiated.
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