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The Oneworld Cockpit Crew Coalition (OCCC) is a federation of pilot unions of the Oneworld Alliance. At present (May 2012) there are 14 pilot associations part of this organization, representing approximately 28,000 employees of either full Oneworld member airlines or so called airline affiliates. In order to protect and enhance the professional interests of pilots in the Oneworld Alliance, representatives of all participating member associations meet on a regular basis to exchange information, share knowledge and experience.

History
The consortium has been founded in 1998, thereby one year before the official launch of the Oneworld Alliance. The original coalition consisted of five member associations representing the pilots from the five Oneworld founder airlines. In the following years Oneworld continued to grow, which also increased the amount of unions taking part in the OCCC (nevertheless some unions had to or are about to leave due to changes in the Oneworld airline structure).

General Objectives
The general objectives of the coalition are demonstrated in OCCC's official Statement Of Principles, signed in August 1998:
 * ''Establishing an ongoing exchange of information
 * ''Sharing knowledge and experience in the airline industry, including details of collective bargaining agreements, national laws and regulations
 * ''Sharing other information important to protect and enhance professional interests
 * ''Avoiding any action that could reduce the leverage available to another member association.

Superior Principles
Furthermore there are certain superior principles to be followed by each member association :
 * ''Developing a common strategy to protect the professional interests of all represented pilots and flight engineers
 * ''Using all lawful, reasonable and appropriate actions to protect the members’ contractual and lawful rights, career expectations and professional interests, including the negotiation into respective labour agreements of jointly fashioned provisions designed to protect any stated goals
 * ''Working together to prepare for the many challenges that member associations and members are certain to face in the future.

Rules Of Conduct
Besides cooperation and coordination of actions all members of OCCC agree to respect the legitimate efforts of each member association to secure fair agreements with their respective airlines. It is understood that an objective of future agreements between Member Associations and management should be to acknowledge the rights of our Member Associations to negotiate with their respective Alliance airline without interference of influence from other Alliance partners.