Seggy
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From the MEC Update.
Interesting times we are in...
United Pilots To Picket PAR Capital, Altimeter Headquarters
In recent weeks, rhetoric from investor groups PAR Capital Management and Altimeter Capital has posed new challenges for the pilots of United Airlines. These investors have made disturbing statements in an attempt to force many changes within United’s Board of Directors.
Our pilots have endured the corporate malfeasance of a structured bankruptcy by our employer and continuous challenges to our industry that have threatened our profession for more than two decades. Management has used opportunities of national crisis to attack our contracts and achieve, through the courts, what they could not secure at the bargaining table.
Thankfully, and due wholly to our past sacrifices, our situation has dramatically improved. Now is not the time for hedge fund minority shareholders to reward themselves at our expense. Now is the time for all stakeholders to benefit from continued reinvestment in our airline’s corporate infrastructure, customer experience, new aircraft, maintenance, training, IT, and improved contracts.
On April 6, 2016, United Airlines will celebrate its 90th anniversary. To mark this historic occasion, the United pilots will convene at the headquarters of PAR and Altimeter in the historic North End of Boston, Mass., - mere footsteps from the location of the Boston tea party of 1775 - and exercise our lawful right to picket. Please join us on April 6, 2016, at 1100 One International Place in Boston. Details from the MEC Strategic Planning and Strike Committee will follow.
Interesting times we are in...
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