Your Union Needs Your
Help
By: Debora Sutor
AFA MEC Grievance Chair
Last March, AFA
sent you an update notifying you of a new MEC grievance filed on
behalf of all American Eagle Flight Attendants. I write today to
advise you, we are still in need of information and
documentation if we are to pursue this grievance in arbitration.
Below you will find a link to a brief description of the
grievance and the information we need from you, to show the
violation.
http://www.afaeagle.org/o_t_replacement_flying.htm
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Arbitration Decision in the Matter of:
Case
#22-99-103-06 - 2% Daily Domicile
Cap
By: Debora Sutor
MEC Grievance Chair
Many of you will
remember receiving an MEC Grievance update in which I explained
AFA’s position regarding the above referenced MEC
Grievance and asked for your help in providing examples of the
alleged violation. Before I launch into the details of the
arbitration decision, I’d like to take a moment to thank
all of the line Flight Attendants who provided examples of the
alleged violation and to those who agreed to testify during the
arbitration hearing. Your assistance and your interest in the
issues that affect our workplace is greatly appreciated.
Click here for
more info:
http://www.afaeagle.org/daily_domicile_cap.htm
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Government Affairs Committee
Updates:
Got Union?
Legislate NOT
Negotiate!
Let me tell you
what your Government Affairs Committees has been up to, along
with YOUR help.
The Omnibus
Bill has been signed by the House and Senate this week. The
benefit of this Bill to Flight Attendants:
Fatigue Funding - The final
bill includes approximately $1 million for researchers to do a
comprehensive study of flight attendant fatigue. Several
years ago, the FAA completed a small study of flight attendant
fatigue and outlined several other areas that needed further
evaluation. We were successful in getting Congress to
provide funding for the FAA to make this a priority. Now,
the FAA will not be able to claim that they do not have the
funds available to carry out the detailed, comprehensive study
that has been called for by researchers.
Seniority Protections in Airline Mergers -
After working very closely with Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
over this past year (Senator McCaskill was strongly supported by
AFA and FlightPAC) to attempt to get these protections
passed into law, we were finally successful in including this
provision in the Omnibus appropriations bill. This provision
requires that in the case of a merger between two or more
airlines, that the workgroups must "fairly and equitably"
integrate the seniority lists. If they cannot reach an
agreement, then it must go to binding arbitration. This is a
fundamental protection that will help avoid the same situation
faced by the TWA flight attendants, when APFA and American
stapled them to the bottom of the seniority list. As
merger and consolidation mania seems to sweep the industry, our
members can now rest a bit easier knowing that their seniority
is now a bit safer thanks to AFA and Senator Claire
McCaskill.
For
More, click here:
http://www.afaeagle.org/gac.htm
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