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Greetings,
NEXT LOCAL COUNCIL MEETING - Date: March 18th,
2009 March 18 marks our next local council meeting. Our special guest at this meeting will be Pat Friend, AFA-CWA International President. Along with dealing with local issues and giving an election update, we will be reviewing and voting on the advanced agenda items for the upcoming Board of Directors (BOD) meeting. This is your opportunity to affect change in your Union. For those of us who do not know, our BOD is comprised of the sixty plus Local Executive Council Presidents from every AFA airline, both large and small. They come together once a year, to approve the yearly budget and bring forth changes that their individual members would like to see implemented to our Constitution and Bylaws. If you would like to discuss a particular ‘local issue’ at our meeting on the 18th please call, or email Shawn Fivecoat at sfivecoat@comcast.net by March 11 with any advanced agenda items that you would like the members to address. You will also have the opportunity to bring forth any late agenda items at the meeting. The decisions made at this meeting will determine how our Local is run and how Shawn votes at the BOD. We hope to see as many people as possible at our meeting helping us make these decisions.
What we are hoping for is roll aboard buses similar to those used in DTW and MSP. You should notice that the MEM Airport Authority provides safe buses for the passengers utilizing the ‘long term’ parking lots. It is a serious hazard for women in high heels to have to navigate four steep and narrow steps carrying luggage for a 5 day trip. If you are approached by someone with one of these petitions we ask that you add your name to this worthy cause. Recently, we have had several flight attendants severely injured attempting to navigate the steps on those buses.
I approached Director, Base Operation, Sandy Gordon last week when she was in MEM and asked her if she was aware of this event. When I gave her the details she told us her name is Margo Smith. She is a manager in a Delta call center for Inflight Services, and lives in Memphis and commutes to Atlanta. She is NOT an active flight attendant, she is Delta management. She was hired as a flight attendant and has maintained her certification. However, she has not flown a trip in many years. Gavin was suspicious because she was being vague or giving out inaccurate information. Although Delta is allowed to have
management in the Crew Lounges, we would expect them to be
transparent as to their true job description and be accurate in
the distribution of information.
E. Transportation 1. At base stations a Flight Attendant shall be allowed actual necessary transportation expenses, but not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) on any trip, for transportation between the airport and place of lodging whenever: a. He/She is required to report at the airport between the hours of 2000 (local time) and 0800 (local time); or b. His/Her incoming flight arrives at the airport between 2000 (local time) and 0800 (local time); or c. When authorized by Crew Scheduling to use a cab, Flight Attendants shall be allowed actual cab fare or parking expenses, at the Flight Attendant's option. You are able to go back 90 days and claim no more than $5.00 per pattern if the above criteria has been met. The form for claiming this expense can be found on RADAR. Go to the ‘INFLIGHT SERVICES’ Tab and click of ‘FORMS’. You are looking for the Cab Transportation form. You can turn one form at the end of each month and the form does not need a managers signature.
PLEASE WEAR YOUR UNION PIN !
Fly Safe, Fly the Contract,
Shawn Fivecoat
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WEAR YOU UNION
PINS - We are hearing comments
from Delta flight attendants about our Union Pins. They
believe if they see a NW flight attendant uniform without a
Union Pin they believe that flight attendant does not support
the Union. 