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Originally Posted by fliguy
Customer Service Agents are the ones inside the terminal who assist passengers. The baggage handlers (station attendants is how they are classified in your link above) are a different job and on a different wage scale. A baggage handler (station attendants) can only become a CSA by bidding on an open position when they become available ie retirement.
The agreement you linked to is from 2002, which is before AC employees took a 20% paycut, so that contract you are showing is no longer valid. That is what the employees are upset about. They took a 20% paycut to help the company stay afloat. Then they see Robert Milton, ex CEO of AC, walk away with somewhere between 80-100 million dollars after employees volunteered to take the paycut. Along comes the next CEO and walks away with $20 million dollars. Now the current CEO is getting a $5 million dollar bonus just for staying with the company. Upper management gets bonuses and increased pension payouts, while the company is telling the rest of the employees that there is no money to pay into the pension as they are obligated to, and there is no money for any type of raise. So no raises and no pension payments by the company, while the higher ups get bonuses and wage increase. If management backed up what they are saying by themselves not taking bonuses and increasing their pension, I am sure there would be a whole lot less conflict.
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That agreement was the only one listed on the IAM website. The numbers I used were from the 2009 column which included a "temporary reduction" in wages and reduced hours. The contract is valid from year to year until such time as the Union or the Company gives notice to redo the deal (which I'm assuming has happened since we are where we are in the labour situation).