US Airways Reaches Final Transition Agreement With TWU Flight Crew Training Instructors

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US Airways Reaches Final Transition Agreement With TWU Flight Crew Training Instructors

TEMPE, Ariz., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- US Airways and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) have reached a final transition agreement moving pre-merger America West Airline's flight crew training instructors to the contract covering their counterparts at pre-merger US Airways.

The agreement, covering 88 employees, was signed yesterday. Details will be communicated by union representatives to their members in the coming days. The agreement sets forth processes and timelines for transitioning pre-merger America West flight crew training instructors to the pre-merger US Airways agreement.

"We're quite pleased to reach a final agreement with our group of exceptional flight crew training instructors. This is the second agreement we have reached with a represented work group in as many weeks and we move closer to our goal of operating a single airline with unified contracts," said Al Hemenway, vice president of labor relations.

In April, a unified contract was reached with TWU-represented flight simulator engineers. Last year, the company reached unified agreements with the Airline Customer Service Employee Association, an alliance between the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the two unions that represent the airline's 7,700 passenger service employees and reservations agents. A unified contract also was forged with the TWU for dispatchers.

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