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Greetings, AFA 66
eCommunication - Friday, April 3, 2009 The work of the AFA Annual Board of Directors has been completed for another year. The second day of the AFA Board of Directors meeting was opened with the news that Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants had ratified a two-year contract by over 84% of the membership. Hawaiian Flight Attendants began negotiations in late 2008 when both AFA-CWA and Hawaiian management agreed to expedite negotiations in order to carefully navigate through the current economic environment. AFA-CWA provided the company with a framework of terms which would allow the negotiations process to be handled expeditiously. The framework had to include certain incentives for Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants. Additionally, it was announced that new AFA membership cards will be mailed out to members in an envelope, with the next edition of AFA’s Flightlog newsletter next month. Entrenched in their work, delegates (LEC Presidents) acted upon the recommendations of each committee tasked with providing guidance and discussion on each agenda item brought forward. Following are the results of the past two days voting on agenda items: The AFA-CWA Budget was drafted, the motion brought to the floor and the budget approved for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Agenda Items 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D – reduction of LEC budgets, MEC budgets, carry-over funds, and the Mobilization Fund – all motions fail
Agenda Item 2 – Full Time Pay for Council Representatives – motion fails Agenda Item 3 – increasing the LEC Budget formula from 19.5% to 35% - motion fails. Agenda item 4 – changing the process for election of International Officers by direct membership election as opposed to the election by the members of the Board of Directors, costs associated with the item, diminish the power of the smaller councils to run for international office – motion fails. Agenda Item 5 – decreasing the requirement that members pay the first 90 days of dues while on sick/medical/OJI or Family Medical leave, down to the first 60 days (substitute resolution) – the motion fails Agenda Item 6 – changing the title from Local Executive Council to Local Elected Council – motion fails. Agenda Item 7 – changing the title from Master Executive Council to Master Executive Council – motion fails. Agenda Item 8 –changing the effective date of adopted agenda items to June 1 of each year, immediately following the BOD – motion is adopted. Agenda Item 9 – Constitution and Bylaws be amended to provide relief from dues obligation when on full month leaves of absence for sick/medical/maternity/ OJI and military – the motion fails Agenda item 10 – electing the International Officers directly by the membership and not the delegates at the Board of Directors – the motion fails Agenda Item 11 – electing the MEC officers directly by the membership and not the LEC officers – the motion fails Agenda Item 12 – changing language to increase the service charge monies of the local council from 19.5% to 40% - the motion fails Agenda Item 13 – Monthly dues payment change to provide an dues payment based upon the hourly rate of pay of the flight attendant. This agenda item would violate the terms of the AFA-CWA merger agreement. As this agenda item is unconstitutional, it is ruled out of order. Agenda Item 14 – requires additional notification of members in bad standing before a special council meeting – the motion fails Agenda Item 15 – providing that the process of requesting duplicate ballots is processed through the international office and stopping that request one day prior to the postmark - the motion fails. Agenda Item 16 – clarifying whether or not a member has to vote the same as the member expects when given a proxy – the motion fails Agenda Item 17 – to include actual income in quarterly financial reports and annual budgets – the motion is adopted hey can vote in a different manner than proxies held – the motion fails Agenda item 18 – uniform/official AFA color – the motion is adopted. Agenda Item 19 – extending the term of the Finance Committee to keep the current members thereby aligning them with the other standing committees of the BOD with the fiscal year – the motion is adopted. Agenda Item 20 – budgets for transitional MECs - motion is adopted Agenda Item 21 – providing BOD voting results for the members via AFA website, and providing how each vote was conducted – the motion is adopted. Agenda item 22 – allowing an elected officer at a multi-council airline to hold only one leadership position – the motion fails. Agenda Item 23 – allocating monies from the Reserve Fund to finance the AFA-CWA Pension Funding Fix – the motion Agenda Item 24 – providing language for hotel selection at BOD meetings to include windows that open and 24 hour food accessibility - motion is adopted Agenda Item 25 – establishing a Crew Accommodations and Transportation Policy Committee - motion is adopted Agenda Item 26 – changing the CWA Scholarship fund to include a flight attendant and his or her spouse or domestic partner – the motion fails Agenda Item 27 – changing language to require all officers from the International level through the union volunteer level to retain and maintain their safety recurrent status and qualification – the motion fails Agenda Item 28 – insurance coverage for autism and the encouragement of AFA to work with management to ensure plan coverage for the diagnosis of Autism - the motion is adopted. Agenda Item 29 – giving a proxy from one member of the MEC to another prior to the commencement of a MEC meeting – motion is adopted Agenda Item 30 – providing recognition to councils for ensuring that 98% of their membership pays dues – motion is adopted. All agenda items
that were approved this year will go into effect on June 1,
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