Pilots Ratify Contract

[Butch]

PHPA Local 102 pilots ratified a 33 month contract with Lear Siegler Services by a 75% yes vote.

Here are the highlights.

Junior pilots get a 46.17% pay increase over the life of the contract. Start pay on...

1 Jan 2003 = $44,200.00
1 Jan 2004 = $50,700.00
1 Jan 2005 = $55,162.00

Senior pilots get a 26.85% pay increase over the life of the contract.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield medical insurance maximum benefit increased to two million dollars.

Our monthly premium at contract end increases to….

Individual $66.00
Individual & Child $112.00
Individual & Spouse $144.00
Family $170.00

You can sell back up to three weeks of vacation time if you wish.

You get paid for up to twelve days of unused sick leave annually.

Maximum shift time is 6.5 hours.

Time and a half for overtime.

Double time for Sundays and Holidays.

$25.00 Night differential.

Junior pilots get 1 week of paid vacation after one year along with two paid weeks off at Christmas.

Senior pilots get 3 weeks of paid vacation along with two paid weeks off at Christmas.

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Here is what a senior pilot can get after 24 months into this contract working straight shifts…...

Base Pay + 401K = $82,102.00
3 weeks of vacation sold back = $4,751.00
12 days of sick leave sold back = $3,801.00

Total Cash Value $90,654.00

The entire contract will be posted on the PHPA website as soon as we get a copy of it. www.autorotate.org

[SASless]

Hey Butch.....how many guys there are bad mouthing the Union nowadays?

You reckon LSI would have coughed up the money without the threat of a work stoppage by the pilots?

Why only a 75% affirmative vote?

[IHL]

What type of work do they do and where are they based?

[GLSNightPilot]

Initial RW training for US Army pilots at Ft Rucker, AL. They earn every penny.:eek:

[Butch]

SASless: There is no way the company would have ever come around without that 100% Yes vote for Strike Authority. It took quite a lot of work even with that, but we had a great negotiating committee. As I understand it, this is the best wage and benefit package negotiated anywhere in the U.S. this year.

The 25% who did not vote yes had a variety of reasons but I think the biggest was they were still angry at the way the company handled this in the beginning and they simply did not want to settle with them.


IHL: LSSI trains all the U.S Army, Air Force, Guard, and Reserves along with pilots from 135 allied nations at Ft. Rucker, AL.


Butch

"You only have the rights you are willing to fight for"

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