June 10, 2004 |
UAL Retirees OK New Benefits
The United Airlines Retiree Coalition announced an agreement with United Airlines that provides insurance benefit modifications for 50,000 of the bankrupt airline’s retirees, their spouses and dependants.
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May 21, 2004 |
United Fails to Reach Consensual Agreement on Retiree Medical Benefits
United Rejects Reasonable Offer from Retirees and Moves Forward with Injurious Plan to Slash Long-term Loyal Employees’ Health Care
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April 14, 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at Sea-Tac, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Three San Francisco Area Airports
United Airlines flight attendants will picket and leaflet at Sea-Tac Airport on April 14, and Washington Dulles, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports on April 15 to protest United’s plan to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees and change their health benefits.
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March 18 , 2004 |
United Concealed that Changes to Retiree Health Care were Likely
United CFO Jake Brace admitted that he knew well before July 1, 2003, that the company would likely seek changes to retiree health benefits through the bankruptcy court. Meanwhile, thousands of United employees decided to retire thinking their health care benefits would be preserved. The fact that United withheld this vital information equates to bad faith bargaining and therefore taints the company’s request to change retiree health benefits.
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March 17 , 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at
Los Angeles Airport
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees will picket and leaflet on March 17 at Los Angeles International Airport to protest United's plan to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees and change their health benefits.
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March 12 , 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at Sea-Tac, Washington Dulles and Los Angeles Airports
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees will picket and leaflet at Sea-Tac and Washington Dulles airports on March 15 and Los Angeles Airport on March 17 to protest United's plan to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees and change their health benefits.
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March 10 , 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at
Newark and Three San Francisco-Area Airports
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees will picket and leaflet at Newark Airport on March 11 and San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports on March 12 to protest United's plan to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees and change their health benefits.
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March 1 , 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at Dulles International Airport Every Monday In March
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees will picket and leaflet every Monday in March 2004 at Dulles International Airport. The actions will protest United's plan to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees and change their health benefits.
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February 27, 2004 |
Bankruptcy Court Appoints Ross O. Silverman as Examiner to Investigate
United Airlines
Bankruptcy court Judge Eugene Wedoff approved the appointment of Ross O. Silverman as the examiner to investigate United's plan to change retiree medical benefits for workers who retired before July 1, 2003.
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February 26, 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Picket and Leaflet at Dulles International Airport
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees picketed and leafleted at Dulles
International Airport, to protest United's plan to break its agreement with
flight attendant retirees.
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February 23, 2004 |
United Flight Attendants Receive Support from Senators in Fight to Save Retiree Health Benefits
Nineteen U.S. Senators signed on to a letter authored by Sen. Edward
Kennedy (D-MA) asking United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton to adhere to the
agreement with retirees and reconsider the airline's planned changes
to retiree health benefits.
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February 20, 2004 |
Bankruptcy Court Rules to Appoint Examiner
to Investigate United Airlines
Bankruptcy court Judge Eugene Wedoff ruled in support of a motion
filed by United Airlines flight attendants to appoint an examiner to
investigate United's plan to change retiree medical benefits for workers
who retired before July 1, 2003.
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February 18, 2004 |
United Flight Attendants and Retirees Deliver
Thousands of Letters of Protest to United
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees personally delivered
thousands of letters from retirees to United CEO Glenn Tilton on Feb 17,
2004 demanding that the airline stop its plan to change retiree health
benefits.
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February 12, 2004 |
Ted's First Flight PickeTED by Flight Attendants
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees picketed, leafleted
passengers, and held a rally at Denver Airport on Thursday, the same day
United Airlines launched its new Ted service.
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February 9, 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Collect Passenger
Support Petitions to Save Retiree Benefits
United Airlines flight attendants and retirees will hold passenger
outreach events to gather passenger signatures protesting United's plan
to break its agreement with flight attendant retirees.
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February 5 , 2004 |
Lawmakers Outraged by United Airlines' Attack
on Retirees
United flight attendants and retirees took to Capitol Hill on Wednesday
and Thursday to inform lawmakers about United Airlines'' plan to renege
on its agreement to provide affordable healthcare for retirees who left
the company prior to July 1, 2003.
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February 2 , 2004 |
UniTED Airlines CheaTED its Retirees
At a press conference at Chicago’s O'Hare airport today, United
Airlines flight attendants announced they are undertaking a major legal,
lobbying, advertising, passenger outreach and media campaign to stop
United Airlines from cheating its retirees out of promised health insurance
benefits.
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January 30, 2004 |
UniTED Airlines Flight Attendants Hold Press
Conference to Announce Major Campaign to Fight to Save Retiree Benefits
United Airlines flight attendants will hold a press conference at
Chicago O'Hare Airport at 11 a.m. on Feb. 2 to unveil a major campaign
to stop United from devastating retirees.
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January 21, 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Are Refusing
To Sign Concessionary Contract
AFA President Patricia Friend statement that United Airlines Flight
Attendants will refuse to sign the concessionary contract because of the
airline's intent to illegally cut retiree health benefits.
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January 16, 2004 |
United Airlines Flight Attendants Union Files
Grievance to Prevent Cuts to Retiree Health Care
The United Airlines Master Executive Council of the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, filed a grievance last night for an expedited
hearing to stop airline management from unlawfully seeking to impose
cuts to retiree medical benefits by unilaterally changing the agreement
reached between the parties in the spring of 2003.
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January 14, 2004 |
United Airlines' Lies to Employees Threaten
Labor Peace at Crucial Time
Statement and MEC resolution regarding airline proposal to forcibly cut
retiree health benefits through the Section 1114 bankruptcy process. |
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