Contract negotiations for two groups of US Airways Express flight attendants are heating up- with one group close to a strike- just as UA faces questions about how it will operate the regional airlines as part of its proposed merger with US Airways.

The Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, has contracts in place protecting all of the flight attendants involved in United's proposed merger. Those contracts contain job protections and successor language that binds United or any potential buyer to the contracts.
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AND: United Airlines and US Airways have agreed to prolong the regulatory review period for their proposed merger after the Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday asked for additional details about a deal between United and AMR Corp.'s American Airlines.
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If United goes forward with its purchase of US Airways without an agreement on a waiver from the flight attendants, it will be a unilateral change in the contract and a ``major dispute'' under the Railway Labor Act. The United flight attendants will then be free to respond with CHAOS(TM) strike actions. A Presidential Emergency Board cannot stop such a strike.

Create Havoc Around Our System(TM), is AFA's trademarked strategy of public information and targeted work actions using random, unannounced strikes. Strikes or any other kind of job action cannot begin unless the U.S. Department of Justice approves the merger and United goes through with the purchase of US Airways without an agreement on a waiver.

The 25,000 United Airlines flight attendants are joined together in AFA, the world's largest flight attendant union. Visit @

http://www.afanet.org
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US Airways Express Flight Attendants Picket & Leaflet Hilton Head Airport
Thursday, May 17, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
HILTON HEAD, S.C., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- US Airways Express flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, will be leafleting and picketing at the Hilton Head Airport on Thursday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The picketing and leafleting is a part of system-wide demonstrations that have hit airports served by Piedmont Airlines.
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