US Airways and IAM Reach Tentative Agreement for Fleet Service Employees

US Airways and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 141 have reached a tentative agreement on a single contract for the airline’s 7,700 ramp and baggage handling employees.

The tentative agreement, which is subject to ratification, establishes new wages and makes other improvements for the airline’s baggage handlers and ramp personnel. The new agreement becomes amendable on December 31, 2011.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) also represents US Airways’s maintenance and related employees. US Airways has reached prior unified agreements with the CWA/IBT, which represents the airline’s reservations agents and passenger service employees, and with the Transport Workers Union, representing flight dispatchers, instructors and engineers.

Doug Parker, chairman and CEO of US Airways, said: “This announcement moves us even closer to our goal of bringing all of our represented work groups to single labor agreements, and we appreciate the hard work of our company and union negotiators to achieve this tentative agreement.”