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Resolution for Strike Preparations

Resolution for Strike Preparations

WHEREAS, the Flight Attendants at United Airlines, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO ratified a 6-year Contract which became effective May 1, 2003 totaling $314,000,000 in annual concessions for the purpose of a successful reorganization of United Airlines; and,

WHEREAS, United management delivered a new term sheet to the United Master Executive Council on November 4, 2004 demanding the termination of our defined benefit pension plan in addition to $137,614,000 in annual concessions that will cut our pay, destroy our work rules and wreck our benefits; and,

WHEREAS, United management has failed to exhaust all non-labor cost savings and implement all revenue generating initiatives; and,

WHEREAS, the Flight Attendants remain committed to a successful reorganization and have contributed what the court deemed to be our fair share; and,

WHEREAS, United management has squandered the investment made to date by the Flight Attendants and other employees; and,

WHEREAS, in its November term sheet United management demands to eliminate the jobs of approximately 1000 Flight Attendants, fails to identify any savings it will realize from certain demands, and has included items that produce insignificant cost savings including the elimination of Contract provisions which apply only in the case of a personal tragedy; and,

WHEREAS, the United Master Executive Council has reviewed and evaluated the contents of the United management’s term sheet.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the United Master Executive Council has concluded that the company’s current demands are neither necessary to a successful reorganization nor fair and equitable; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, based upon United’s current demands, the United Master Executive Council has determined that United management is intent on exploiting the 1113(c) process to achieve what it desires rather than what it needs; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the United Master Executive Council will pursue all avenues to maintain a quality of life and good paying jobs for United Flight Attendants as we take all actions necessary to prevent United management from destroying our careers and extracting from the Flight Attendants a single dime more than the law permits; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the United Master Executive Council, notwithstanding the conduct of United’s current management, will direct the Financial Review Committee as representatives of the United Master Executive Council to meet with United management to fulfill our obligations under Section 1113(c) of the Bankruptcy Code; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the United Master Executive Council believes that United management will remain fixed upon a strategy of overreaching, will not negotiate in good faith and will seek judicial intervention to achieve its unnecessary, unfair and inequitable goals; and,

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that based upon the distinct possibility that United management will engage in one or all of the actions described above, the United Master Executive Council will immediately begin all necessary preparations, including issuing a CHAOS TM strike ballot to the Membership.

Unanimously Adopted
November 13, 2004

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