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United Negotiations–Week 13
Rich Delaney, June 30, 2009
We approached this past week of United negotiations as a
significant timeframe. Knowing we are taking the next 2 weeks
away from direct talks in United negotiations, both sides saw
the week as an opportunity to revisit and finalize some of the
outstanding topics that have been talked about over the last 3
months.
What does each proposal cost in united negotiations?
United negotiations began the week began with a meeting between
the company’s finance group and economists from the IAM’s
Strategic Resources Dept. As we have noted before, this meeting
was an important step in preparing for the future United
negotiations that deal exclusively with money. The purpose of
the meeting was to get a common understanding of what elements
would be used to cost our proposals. This in no way is going to
stop or limit the expected disagreements over the need or desire
to make changes in our contract during United negotiations, but
it should reduce the arguments over what the cost really is.
When we returned to the table at United negotiations, we were
then able to re-focus on the issues that had already been
introduced. This was a necessary review that allowed us to make
sure that no proposal, significant or small, has been forgotten.
It also gave both sides in United negotiations the chance to
review their positions and make movement towards settlement.
This is really the essence of negotiations and was most evident
this week. Proposals concerning the establishing and use of
seniority, job descriptions, vacation flexibility, and sick time
usage all were discussed. While not every issue was completely
resolved, both sides in United negotiations can clearly see what
it will take to settle them. Some proposals, when fully
discussed, are seen as being connected with other issues that
have not been brought to the table yet and therefore could not
be resolved this week.
United negotiations switching to preparation; return to direct
talks in two weeks.
During the next 2 weeks our Negotiating Team will be researching
and preparing presentations and responses to the newer proposals
that were also introduced this week. When we return to United
negotiations in mid-July we expect to speed up the introduction
of new proposals concerning Articles of the contract that have
not been talked about to this point and we want to be completely
prepared to have serious discussions that will lead to agreement
on the serious issues still out there.
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