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Greetings, AFA 66 eCommunication - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 CBT Software Glitch Polls Open for Officer Recalls AFA
Applauds NMB Voting Procedure
Change CBT
Software Glitch The Company has notified AFA of a glitch in the CBT program that caused the program to end the August through October CBT module prior to the completion of the module. Flight attendants affected by the glitch experienced a screen flash ending the module early and then received an erroneous pop-up scroll that congratulated the user on finishing the module. Maureen Mack, Manager Inflight Training PHX, said approximately 65 flight attendants were affected by the glitch. US Airways' Computer Based Training is approved and mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration and is a requirement for flight attendant qualification. CBT must be completed in its entirety in order to remain legal to fly. For flight attendants who are affected, the Company has created an additional mini-module that contains anywhere from 2 to 36 pages missed from the original CBT. The mini-module is customized for each flight attendant and is now available on the Wings website, in CBT under course offerings only for those flight attendants who were affected. The module will need to be completed by November 30, 2009. All flight
attendants affected by the glitch are being contacted personally
via phone by the Training department. Should you receive a call from the Training
department, please respond as soon as is convenient. Officer Recall Ballots
Mailed - Electronic Polls Open for
Voting In accordance with the AFA-CWA Constitution and Bylaws, a local meeting was called on October 16, 2009 to consider the recall of the LEC President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer and Council Representative. By a majority vote of the members present, a ballot will circulate among the members of Council 66 to decide whether or not the four (4) LEC Officers should be recalled. Balloting is being done electronically. All Council 66 flight attendants should have received a Voting Notice and Instructions in the mail from AFA International. The vote is being conducted electronically via the AFA International website at www.afanet.org or via phone at 1-877-232-8683 (1-877-AFA-VOTE) To vote, follow the instructions below. You may vote as many times as you wish, either using the telephone or Internet. Only your last recorded vote will be counted in the election tally. If you have any questions, please contact the Membership Services Department at 1-800-424-2401. Voting Instructions Step 1. If you have your VIN (Voter ID number and PIN (personal ID number, skip to Step number 2, otherwise:
Step 2. To vote by Internet: Go to : www.afanet.org and click the link under Click Here to Vote
To vote by telephone: Call 1-877-AFA-Vote (1-877-232-8683) from within the US or Canada Step 3. Enter your VIN and PIN and follow the directions for voting. Done! All polls close
on on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 am
PHX) Single
Certification Application Withdrawn for Delta/Northwest Flight
Attendant Election Washington,
DC - The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
(AFA-CWA) today withdrew the single transportation certification
application it filed with the National Mediation Board (NMB) in
July on behalf of flight attendants at Northwest Airlines and
Delta Air Lines. The withdrawal is in response to the NMB's
recent proposed voting procedures announcement that would permit
a majority of workers who actually vote in union elections to
decide the election and stop assigning "no" votes to workers who
do not participate. "Now that the NMB
has announced that, for the first time in recent years, airline
employees seeking union representation will have a chance for
truly fair elections," said Patricia Friend, AFA-CWA
International President. "As the largest private sector union
election this year, we want this election at Delta Air Lines to
occur under the new democratic procedures and therefore are
withdrawing our single transportation application." If AFA-CWA did
not withdraw the petition, it is likely that the Delta flight
attendants would be voting during the NMB's 60-day comment
period with the ballot count taking place just weeks, if
not days, before the final balloting rule is implemented. Since
the NMB had yet to respond to AFA-CWA's application, an election
for the flight attendants had not been scheduled. "For the first time in many years, employees seeking union representation will now have the opportunity to have their voice heard and their votes counted. We have a responsibility to withdraw our application to not only protect the Northwest flight attendant contract, but also to ensure that Delta flight attendants have the opportunity to vote for AFA-CWA representation in the most democratic of ways," added Friend.
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