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Greetings,
The position of
MEC SYSTEM BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT—ALTERNATE will be voted on
the 11th of August. For those interested
in the position please submit your resume to MEC
Vice President Debra McDougald at dsnazzy@aol.com by noon
on August 9th 2009.
Article IX
- AMR SYSTEM BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT LIST
A.
POLICY
1.
It is the policy of the American Eagle
Master Executive Council to process grievances
submitted to the System Board of Adjustment in the following
order:
- Two (2)
“Termination” grievances;
- One (1) “Contract”
or “Discipline other than Discharge” grievance.
Within each
category, grievances will be arranged by the date of the initial
filing. Any grievances may be processed out of order at
the pleasure of the MEC (adopted October
1998).
B. RESOLUTION OF
GRIEVANCES
The authority to
approve resolutions of all grievances rests with the MEC.
Any resolution of a grievance filed prior to the implementation
of the single merged American Eagle Flight
Attendant Agreement may only be made after
consulting with the applicable LEC President and the AFA Legal
Department.
C. SYSTEM BOARD
OF ADJUSTMENT
Purpose and Scope
Members serve on the System Board of Adjustment for the
purpose of arbitrating disputes and/or grievances which may
arise under the terms of the Agreement between American Eagle
Airlines and its Flight
Attendants.
1. There will be one (1) Permanent
Member and one (1) Alternate Member elected to represent the
Association.
2. System Board members will act in the
best interest of the membership and the Association and will be
consistent with the Agreement between the Flight
Attendants and American Eagle
Airlines.
3. There will be no separate budget
administered by the System Board of Adjustment. Flight Pay Loss
and expenses incurred in the discharge of the System Board
member(s)’ duties will be borne out of the System Board of
Adjustment budget administered by the Chairperson of the MEC
Grievance
Committee.
Selection
1. System Board members will be elected
by a majority vote of the MEC from the active members in good
standing.
2. System Board members will be elected
for a two (2) year term of office. One Union member will
be elected each year to ensure, insofar as possible, that both
Union members will not at any time be new.
3. The Permanent Member will serve a two
(2) year term.
4. The Alternate Member will initially
serve a one (1) year term. Thereafter, the Alternate
Member will serve two (2) year terms.
5. The MEC President will have the
ability, in the event of an emergency, to appoint a qualified
member in good standing to fill an ad hoc position on the Board,
should the Permanent or the Alternate member be
unavailable.
6. The MEC on an ad hoc basis, by
majority vote, may appoint an expert as a substitute for a
member of the System Board of Adjustment.
Duties
1. The System Board members will serve
as the AFA-appointee on the American Eagle Airlines Flight
Attendants System Board of Adjustment (“the Board”)
for the purpose of gathering evidence, testimony and argument,
whether written or oral, whenever the Board convenes to
arbitrate disputes and/or grievances which may arise under the
terms of the Agreement between American Eagle Airlines and its
Flight Attendants.
2. The System Board member(s) selected
to serve on a specific Board will apprise themselves of the
issue(s) involved in the dispute(s) to be arbitrated, as well as
the Union’s theory and arguments of the
case(s).
3. The System Board member(s) selected
to serve on a specific Board will attend the entirety of the
arbitration, whether conducted in person, telephonically or by
other electronic communication.
4. The System Board member(s) selected
to serve on a specific Board will attend any Executive
Session(s) called by the neutral member of the Board, the
Company appointee(s) to the Board or the Union appointee(s) to
the Board.
5. Draft Decisions of the System Board
of Adjustment will be considered to be
“confidential” until such time as the decision has
been signed by a majority of the Board members comprised of the
Union-appointee, the Company-appointee and the neutral member of
the Board.
Revised: July 9,
2004 Section C
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