AMFA/Alaska Airlines Contract Negotiations Update

Update # 15 November 8, 2016

The Negotiating Committee is providing this update to the AMFA Membership at Alaska Airlines. This is the only official authorized source of negotiating communications by the Committee.

On November 1–3, 2016, AMFA and Alaska Airlines met to continue negotiations at the Four Points Hotel in Seattle, WA. We started the first day at 9:00 AM, with the Company asking us to go over our last economic proposal from October 13, 2016. The Company then wanted to do another review where Alaska Technicians would be ranked for all-in wages (all-in wages include base pay, license premiums, line premium, and maximum longevity) within the current airline industry. If all of the current offers to Technicians from the other carriers are approved, we would rank sixth among our peers, with Alaska’s current all-in offer of $43.18. Here is the projected ranking for airlines for all-in wages: Southwest, Delta, American, United, JetBlue, Alaska, Spirit, Hawaiian, Allegiant, and Frontier.

Towards the end of the day on Tuesday, the Company told us that they felt their last offer on the table from October 11, 2016, of a 9% wage increase on the day of signing with 1.5 % on the down years was very good. They then gave us their counter proposal with the only changes from their previous offer being increases to shift differential amounts. The increases were: second shift increasing from $0.51 to $0.60 an hour, third shift increasing from $0.58 to $0.75 an hour, and relief shift increasing from $0.61 to $0.80 an hour. We informed the Company that we would work on a counter the following day and would notify them when we were ready to meet.

On Wednesday we spent the day working on our counter proposal. Late in the afternoon we informed the Company that we would by ready to give them our counter proposal at 9:00 AM on the following morning.

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