Local 107’s Contract ‘08

•                    Contract negotiation team started negotiations – 5/27/08
•                      Tentative Agreement reached – 9/09/08
•                      Time spent negotiating – 15 weeks
•                      Hurricane interruptions – 2

ARTICLES WITH NO CHANGE

NOTE: Some Articles listed may have small grammar corrections

n Articles:

¨ 1 – Statement of Purpose

¨ 3 – Status of Agreement

¨ 15 – Jury Duty

¨ 29 – Safety/Accident Prevention

¨ 30 – General and Misc.

¨ 31 – Union Bulletin Boards & Communications

¨ 34 – No Strike/No Walkout

¨ 35 – Union Representation

¨ 36 – Union Security

¨ 37 – Savings Clause

ARTICLES (Changes)

¨ Agreement

¨ Name Change from Offshore Logistics to “Bristow Group” throughout the Contract

¨  Articles:

¨ 2 – Recognition and Representation

¨ Incorporated LOA #1 from last contract (Fixed Wing)

¨ Added additional section for security against contract pilots

¨ 4 – Pilot Status

¨ Added requirement of written notification if probation to the Union extended

¨ 5 – Seniority

¨ 6 – Seniority Roster

¨ Added language to post seniority by 10^th day of each month

¨ 7 – Reductions in Workforce

¨ Incorporated 30 day notice (from 14)

¨ Changed from 7 day recall notice (from 5)

¨ 9 – Categories of Aircraft

¨ Upgrade definition moved to Article #17

¨ Added “transfers” to clause

¨ 10 – Schedules of Service

¨ 14/14 schedule recognized as a primary schedule

¨ Added Alaska language (head to head and 28/28)

¨ Changed to 14 day notice for schedule changes (from 7)

¨ Added maximum consecutive work days (21 VFR / 28 IFR)

¨ 11 – Leaves of Absence

¨ Wording changed to Paid-Time-Off (PTO) and Sick-Time-Off (STO) throughout Contract

¨ Clarified wording for Medical Leaves of Absence (use of sick time before disability)

¨ 13 – On-The-Job Injury (OJI) Leave

¨ Extended Medical benefits from 12-months to 18-months

¨ 14 – Bereavement Leave

¨ Expanded Family members

¨ 16 – Fees and Physical Examinations

¨ Clarified requirement to have medical in by 25^th of the Expiration month or mandatory removal from payroll

¨ 17 – Training

¨ Defined Transition, and Special training

¨ 18 – Facilities, Equipment, and Uniforms

¨ Limit of trailers to 4 pilots per trailer

¨ Added EPIRB as standard equipment

¨ Increased equipment allowance to $400 per year in the GOM (from $200)

¨ Removed “approval” requirement for Uniform replacement

¨ Added grooming standard clause for VIP Flights

¨ 19 – Severance Pay

¨ Restructured Years of Service (to add anyone less than one year)

¨ Increased Severance Allowance for all years

¨ 20 – Moving Expense

¨ Restructured Mileage Radius for moving reimbursement (30 miles from base, to 250 miles from ARA)

¨ Omitted Receipt clause for reimbursement

¨ Changed “notice of move” to 14 days (from 30)

¨ 24 – Workover/Overtime

¨ You can now email a request for workover acceptance from Company email

¨ Maximum of 3 days comp. time and required usage within 6 months

¨ 25 – Travel Pay

¨ Deleted photo ID language - obsolete

¨ 26 – Per Diem

¨ Added language to only include Per Diem while away from assigned base

¨ Increased Per Diem to $30.00 a day

¨ Removed Section B (Pilots assigned Offshore/RON onshore)

¨ Added exclusion of meal allowance when offshore bonus is paid

¨ 28 – Retirement and 401(K) Plan

¨ Added section 3 – defines gross earnings

¨ Added section 4 – changes to 401 (K) plan will be on the same basis as other company employees

¨ 32 – Grievance Procedure

¨ Increased appeal time from 10 to 14 days

¨ Changed initial filing of grievance from 7 days to14 days

¨ Appropriate name changes for new management titles

¨ 33 – System Board of Adjustments

¨ Minor date changes (increases) from 10 to 14 days on arbitrator issues

¨ Alaska language added for clarification in section 9

¨ 38 – Duration

¨ Period of duration is defined as 30 months

¨ Amendable date of TA’d contract is April 4, 2011

MAJOR Changes

¨ 8 – Job Posting And Bidding

n A pilot stays in his/her job until he/she is qualified

n Included Company electronic media accessible to all pilots

n Added posting jobs as 7/7 or 14/14 (new jobs)

n 21 days for bidding (removing inactive pilots)

n Added late bid award opportunity

n All IFR references moved to IFR cadre; Article 39

¨ 12 – Paid Days Off

n Vacation and Sick Days Combined to form Paid Time Off (PTO)

n New Hires start accruing 14 PTO days immediately

n Current Sick Bank Restructured

¨ All “Banked” sick days will be grandfathered into the new STO Plan

¨ New hires or Pilots with less than 7 days of accrued sick time will be required to rollover 7 days total into their STO bank

¨ Once you have 7 days in your STO, no more days are required 

n Vacation Scheduling

¨ 1^st round vacation requests remain the same (with exception of this year)

¨ 2^nd round – changed to One Hitch Short-term Vacation

¨ 1^st Quarter Bidding from Oct 15^th – Nov  1^st (Jan, Feb, Mar)

¨ 2^nd Quarter Bidding from Jan 15^th – Feb 1^st (Apr, May, Jun)

¨ 3^rd Quarter Bidding from Apr 15^th – May 1^st (Jul, Aug, Sep)

¨ 4^th Quarter Bidding from Jul 15^th – Aug 1^st (Oct, Nov, Dec)

¨ By the 10^th of each bidding month, approvals will be posted along with a list of remaining available vacation dates for that particular quarter.

¨ One Hitch Minimum Notice

¨ On the 11^th day of  the bidding month for each quarter, until the end of that month, pilots can request vacation on remaining hitches available for that quarter

¨ Awarded first come first serve

n Vacation Scheduling

¨ Day at a time vacation

¨ Notice of Approval 3 days minimum

¨ Less than 3 days notice, approval is ASAP

¨ Vacation Cancellation

¨ Involuntary cancellation (and vacation cannot be rescheduled) the pilot will receive 150% normal base salary and any expenses incurred. (with this option days are lost)

¨ If vacation days are kept, pilot returns to work at his current salary

¨ 27 – Insurance Benefits

n Increased short term disability (66.6% to max. of $4333)

n Removed Aflac section – now to be paid direct from pilot to Aflac

n Individual out-of-pocket increased to max. $2500

n Family out-of-pocket increased to $5000

n Added vision policy – Current company policy

n Added outlined contributions to $750 deductible plan for after January 1, 2009

¨ 39 – IFR Cadre

n Modified and Incorporated LOA #2

n Concept :

¨ A VFR PIC moves into the IFR Cadre by bidding IFR SIC pool position and become a pay protected IFR SIC in the pool

¨ Current senior pool SICs will be approached to take IFR PIC check rides and become pay protected as IFR PIC in the pool

¨ IFR jobs will be posted for bid by IFR cadre members, and opens IFR pool jobs to be bid out to VFR pilots

¨ All current IFR members will be grandfathered into the IFR Cadre

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27 -   IFR Contracts with contract period greater than six months                         x4  -        The true number of pilots required to fill the  schedules                         108 -      The total number of IFR pilots to fill the contracts                     x  15% -     The percentage over to determine the IFR SIC Cadre Pool                   16.2 (16)-    The total number of IFR SIC Pool pilots                      x  60% -   The percentage used to determine the IFR PIC cadre pool                    9.6 (10) -    The total number of IFR PIC Pool pilots                          124 –       The total number of pilots in IFR Cadre

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¨40 – S-92 Cadre

n Input LOA #10

MAJOR Changes

n Articles:

¨ 21 – Compensation

n Compression of Pay Scales

n Length of Contract and your bottom line

nVFR 18-24 Month Pay Scale

Pay Level	Sept-08	Oct-08	Apr-09	Apr-10		Your Current Pay Level	Percentage	Dollars	18-24 Month Salary
New Hire	52,684	55,845	59,196	62,747		New Hire	26%	13,783	66,467
1 to 2	54,154	57,403	60,847	64,498		1 to 2	27%	14,386	68,540
2 to 3	55,807	59,155	62,704	66,467		2 to 3	28%	15,364	71,171
3 to 4	57,547	61,000	64,660	68,540		3 to 4	30%	17,158	74,705
4 to 5	59,757	63,342	67,143	71,171		4 to 5	30%	17,653	77,410
5 to 6	62,724	66,487	70,476	74,705		5 to 6	26%	16,374	79,098
6 to 7	64,995	68,895	73,029	77,410		6 to 7	25%	16,286	81,281
7 to 8	66,412	70,397	74,621	79,098		7 to 8	24%	15,695	82,107
8 to 9	68,245	72,340	76,680	81,281		8 to 9	24%	16,081	84,326
9 to 10	68,939	73,075	77,460	82,107		9 to 10	24%	16,676	85,615
10 to 11	70,802	75,050	79,553	84,326		10 to 11	23%	16,130	86,932
11 to 12	71,884	76,197	80,769	85,615		11 to 12	23%	16,178	88,062
12 to 13	72,990	77,369	82,011	86,932		12 to 13	21%	15,276	88,266
13 to 14	73,939	78,375	83,078	88,062		13 to 14	21%	15,819	89,758
14 to 15	74,109	78,556	83,269	88,266		14 to 15	20%	15,165	89,758
15	74,278 to 75,697	79,884	84,677	89,758		15	19% to 20%	14,851 to 14,061	89,758

 

nIFR 18-24 Month Pay Scale

Pay Level	Sept-08	Oct-08	Apr-09	Apr-10		Year Level	Percentage	Dollars	Salary
New Hire	58,323	61,822	65,531	69,463		New Hire	25%	15,883	72,706
1 to 2	59,789	63,376	67,179	71,210		1 to 2	25%	16,606	74,895
2 to 3	61,045	64,708	68,590	72,706		2 to 3	27%	18,079	77,624
3 to 4	62,883	66,656	70,655	74,895		3 to 4	29%	19,485	80,868
4 to 5	65,175	69,086	73,231	77,624		4 to 5	28%	19,784	83,459
5 to 6	67,898	71,972	76,290	80,868		5 to 6	26%	19,051	85,449
6 to 7	70,074	74,278	78,735	83,459		6 to 7	25%	19,066	87,640
7 to 8	71,745	76,050	80,613	85,449		7 to 8	25%	19,730	89,975
8 to 9	73,584	77,999	82,679	87,640		8 to 9	29%	22,636	94,720
9 to 10	75,545	80,078	84,882	89,975		9 to 10	29%	23,579	97,624
10 to 11	79,529	84,301	89,359	94,720		10 to 11	26%	22,089	100,118
11 to 12	81,967	86,885	92,098	97,624		11 to 12	25%	21,813	102,280
12 to 13	84,061	89,105	94,451	100,118		12 to 13	23%	20,614	103,175
13 to 14	85,876	91,029	96,490	102,280		13 to 14	21%	19,878	104,254
14 to 15	86,628	91,826	97,335	103,175		14 to 15	21%	20,043	105,171
15 to 16	87,534	92,786	98,353	104,254		15 to 16	21%	20,169	106,203
16 to 17	88,304	93,602	99,218	105,171		16 to 17	22%	20,598	107,402
17 to 18	89,170	94,520	100,191	106,203		17 to 18	21%	20,580	108,250
18 to 19	90,177	95,588	101,323	107,402		18 to 19	21%	20,179	108,856
19 to 20	90,889	96,342	102,123	108,250		19 to 20	20%	20,074	109,463
20 to 21	91,398	96,882	102,695	108,856		20 to 21	21%	20,695	110,593
21 to 22	91,907	97,421	103,267	109,463		21 to 22	22%	21,316	111,723
22 to 23	92,856	98,427	104,333	110,593		22 to 23	22%	21,498	112,854
23 to 24	93,805	99,433	105,399	111,723		23 to 24	26%	26,201	118,506
24 to 25	94,754	100,439	106,466	112,854		24 to 25	23%	23,354	118,506
25 to 30	95,703  to 99,500	105,470	111,798	118,506		25	19% to 21%	22,405 To 20,506	118,506

 

n Articles:

¨ 21 – Compensation

n Specified training pay

n Recurrent and special training paid at 1.5 when conducted off hitch

n Defined PFE program incorporating current LOA language

n Added exception to section 4 for S-92 cadre (base salary increase in regards to IFR Program and completion of training)

n Date established for length of contract with implementation of back pay to October 4, 2008, provided contract ratified before October 31, 2008

n Added 10% shortage = 1.75 for workover

n Added company defined emergency workover requirements = 2.0 pay

n Added  - Unscheduled workover (replaced Partial Workover) defining if RON due to weather and getting released before noon

n Added – Section 10 – Schedule Change – defining change over from one schedule to another. It states that the company will pay the pilot an extra ½ day for the remainder of the day required for the schedule change.

¨ 22 – Supplement Pay

n Check Airman – from $500 to $750

n Filed Check Airman – from $200 to $300

n IFR SIC – from $125 to $200

n Test Pilots – redefined $500

n Heavy Aircraft – New language - $400 a month for aircraft that require a type rating

n S-92 SIC s – New language - $100 a month

n ATP rating – New language - $100 a month for having an ATP rating

¨ 23 – Bonuses

n Input LOA #9 – $100 a night Offshore

n Sling Bonus – from $35 to $50

n Added SSIP paid at highest level language

n Added Section 5 - Flight Hour Bonus (LOA #9) = from $6 to $10 a hour over 35 hours

End of Report