UA Seeks Clarity on AGWA Collective Bargaining Agreement Negotiation Ground Rules
Feb. 28, 2024
UA suspended planned, in-person bargaining with AGWA this week to focus on making sure our bargaining teams are on the same page when it comes to our mutually agreed-upon ground rules.
- Set Up for Success: Ground rules set expectations and guidance for negotiating teams so that the bargaining process can proceed smoothly and constructively.
- UA and AGWA have differing understandings of the ground rules, and that disconnect became very apparent last week.
- The mutually agreed upon ground rules call for closed negotiations to protect the integrity of the process and ensure that UA and AGWA can work through potentially challenging issues productively.
Why It Matters: Aligning on ground rules will ensure the integrity of and confidence in the negotiation process, and allow our productive negotiations to continue.
- Our negotiating team has asked AGWA to pivot slightly, and use the previously scheduled in-person bargaining time for our chief negotiators to work through the differing understandings of ground rules.
Negotiations Continue. Even though in-person bargaining won’t happen this week, UA is still actively engaged in negotiations with AGWA.
- UA has continued to exchange articles and other information with AGWA over email, including responses to a large request for information from AGWA.
What’s Next: UA is hopeful we’ll be able to reach a resolution on this issue, and return to our schedule of previously scheduled bargaining sessions over the next three months.
- UA has been and will continue to negotiate in good faith with AGWA to reach an initial contract.
- The mutually agreed upon ground rules call for closed negotiations to protect the integrity of the process and ensure that UA and AGWA can work through potentially challenging issues productively.