Local Council Meeting –

Date:  Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Time:  11:30AM until 1:30PM

Location:  Memphis Airport Conference Room 2A (Upstairs, Mezzanine Level – where the Delta uniform fittings were conducted)

We want everyone to attend!   If you do not want to deal with childcare, we will have a kids table to keep them entertained during the meeting.

Lunch will be served.

Report Time for a Deadhead Segment – Please remember that check-in time for a domestic flight segment is one hour, even if that flight is a deadhead segment.  Many MEM reserves are being flown to the ATL satellite base, to continue on a flight across the Atlantic.  When you are assigned to this flying, your first segment is a DH on Delta to ATL.  Your pattern will state your report time as 30 minutes before departure.  Per the contract, this is done for pay purposes only.  Your per diem starts 30 minutes prior to departure on deadhead segments only; however, the report time at base before that DH segment is still one hour.  DO NOT forget to make your one hour report, or you will be given a Late Report.  This is true on all dead head segments departing the base, for both schedule holders and reserves.

Campaign Update:   LEC Council Rep Lucy Green and LEC President Shawn Fivecoat are spending a great deal of their time in the Delta Crew Lounges in CVG and ATL, talking to pre-merger Delta flight attendants.  We are excited to report there is good progress!  We are having many good conversations, and are starting to see movement towards support.  There were even a few days where Lucy’s husband, Capt Steve Green, spent some of his days off in the ATL Crew Lounges (in uniform) talking to Delta flight attendants.  We would like to take this opportunity to say “THANK YOU” to Steve, for standing up on our behalf! 

LEC Officer Base Visibility –   Your Local Officers are gearing up for the upcoming election.  We are spending as much time as possible in the MEM Crew Lounge, to make sure you have the most up to date information.  We will have a table set up with bag tags and AFA Pins. 

We will continue to rotate our time in the Delta Crew Lounges in ATL and CVG, talking to our Delta counterparts.  We are spending 3 to 5 day stretches, in uniform, having conversations about the benefits of a contract.  These conversations are helping us change minds on the Delta side.

CALL TO ACTION - MAKE FMLA THE LAW FOR FLIGHT CREWS -FMLA legislation, correcting the exclusion of flight attendants, is before the Senate.  If we want this legislation to pass, your Senator's need to hear from you, NOW !!!

Currently the NW flight attendants have FMLA, because we have negotiated and secured it in our Contract.  If we can fix the law, eliminating the loop hole, we will not have to negotiate for these protections going forward.  Currently pre-merger Delta flight attendants have FMLA; however, it can be taken away at anytime, because the law does not technically cover flight crews.

Please pick up the phone and call both of your Senator's.  You should have every single member of your family, who is of voting age make a call as well.  You can even include your neighbors and friends!  IT IS THAT IMPORTANT !

Below is a script you can utilize:

Hello.  My name is__________________ and I am a registered voter in the state.  I live in (CITY).  I am calling to ask the Senator to cosponsor S. 1422. This is bipartisan, common sense legislation which has already passed the House of Representatives on a unanimous voice vote.  It would fix a long standing problem and finally provide FMLA fairness for flight attendants.  Please make sure that the Senator stands with the nations flight attendants by cosponsoring S. 1422.  Thank you for your time

TN - Senator Lamar Alexander - 202-224-4944
        Senator Bob Corker - 202-224-3344

AL - Richard Shelby - 202-224-5744
        Jeff Sessions - 202-224-4124

MS - Thad Cochran - 202-224-5054
         Roger Wicker - 202-224-6253

 AR - Blanche Lincoln - 202-224-4843
         Mark Pryor - 202-224-2353

If your Senator is not listed above please go to:  http://www.senate.gov/ to find contact information.