I continue to work on Base Maintenance Outsourcing. Below is a review of our CBA regarding base outsourcing.
Base Maintenance Outsourcing is found in Article 6.E. through 6.I. of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
Section F. & I. covers the AO & AO Support Shops, “Company base maintenance employees will perform at least fifty (50%) percent or greater of all aircraft overhaul and modification base maintenance work”
“The Company shall maintain a system wide minimum headcount of two thousand six hundred (2,600) active base maintenance employees (which includes Crew Chief and Tech Crew Chief Aviation Maintenance Technicians, Aviation Maintenance Technicians, Inspectors, Overhaul Support Mechanics, Crew Chief Cleaners and Cleaners) assigned to base maintenance in aircraft overhaul, modification and direct support shops (as set forth in Section I of this Article) across its active maintenance bases.”
- Currently the company is approximately 3-5 percent above minimum headcount in AO & AO Support Shops.
Section G. covers Aircraft Engines and APU’s, “The Company may elect to insource or outsource the maintenance, repair, servicing, overhaul, inspection or modification of aircraft engines and auxiliary power units (APUs). The Company, however, will continue to insource the work to be performed on the JT8D-200, CF6-80C2, CFM56-7B, and CFM56-5B engine types and the 131-9B, 36-280/DHF, and 331-500 APUs consistent with current practices as of March 26, 2020 for as long as the Company continues to use such engines and APUs.”
Section H. covers Aircraft Components, The Company may elect to insource or outsource the maintenance, repair, servicing, overhaul, inspection or modification of aircraft components; the servicing, maintaining, and repairing of tools and equipment; and the servicing, maintaining, and repairing of ground radio equipment. The Company, however, shall maintain a minimum headcount (excluding those employees working in Section I below) of active component shop employees equal to at least twenty percent (20%) of the active employees across the system who are working in the aircraft overhaul, modification and direct support shops as set forth below in Section I In making this calculation, the Company shall include Crew Chief and Tech Crew Chief Aviation Maintenance Technicians, Aviation Maintenance Technicians, Inspectors, Overhaul Support Mechanics, Crew Chief Cleaner, and Cleaner employees working in aircraft overhaul, modification and such shops listed below in Section I of this minimum required group of active component shop employees, however, at least forty percent (40%) will be Aviation Maintenance Technicians.
- Currently the company is within the provisions of the CBA regarding Component Shops.
Jay Potter
Executive Board Member at Large
Contracting Out Committee Chair