USAPA Will File with NMB This Month.Independent Labor Union labor union: see union, labor. seeks to Unseat Incumbent CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA USAPA United States Army Publishing Agency USAPA United States of America Pickleball Association USAPA United States of America Patriot Act USAPA USA Program Administrators, Inc. USAPA United States Airborne Pathfinder's Association USAPA United States Agricultural Producers Alliance ) announced today it has sufficient written pilot requests on hand to force a representation election for the US Airways pilots. USAPA intends to file an application with the National Mediation Board The National Mediation Board is a three-person board created in 1934 by an act amending the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C.A. §§ 151–158, 160–162, 1181–1188) to resolve disputes in the railroad and airline industries that could disrupt travel or imperil the (NMB NMB new methylene blue. ) by the end of October to force the removal of the existing bargaining agent. "USAPA's efforts will result in the expeditious removal of ALPA ALPA abbr. Air Line Pilots Association from the lives of US Airways pilots," said Stephen Bradford, USAPA's President and a US Airways Airbus 320 pilot. "The support of our pilots coupled with the hard and careful work of our volunteers will allow us to deliver an airtight and unimpeachable un·im·peach·a·ble adj. 1. Difficult or impossible to impeach: an unimpeachable witness. 2. Beyond reproach; blameless: unimpeachable behavior. 3. package to the National Mediation Board this month." USAPA notes that a recent letter from ALPA has placed the US Airways MEC MEC Ministério da Educação (Ministry of Education) MEC Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain: Ministry for Education and Science) MEC Mountain Equipment Co-Op in de facto trusteeship. "ALPA National has dictated to the MEC that it must abandon its struggle to rectify the inequities of the seniority integration list ALPA National has passed to the Company. That leaves USAPA as the only means by which US Airways pilots can address the seniority issue," said Mark Thorpe, a Charlotte-based Boeing 757/767 pilot and USAPA's Vice-President. Requests from 50% of eligible pilots, plus one, are required for the NMB to make a finding that a representational dispute exists. During the follow-on election a simple majority of voting pilots will determine the new collective bargaining agent. USAPA expects to begin representing the US Airways pilots during the first quarter of 2008. USAPA is the new union created to represent the interests of US Airways Pilots "from the pilot up." USAPA has been specifically designed to deliver superior representation for all US Airways pilots. Because USAPA represents only US Airways pilots, the conflicts of interest associated with a large national association are avoided. American Airlines pilots, previously affiliated with ALPA, were assisted in their departure from the association by the same law firm assisting the US Airways pilots today. For additional information about USAPA, please visit www.USAirlinePilots.org or send an email to media@USAirlinePilots.org. |
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