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October 3, 2007 Council 94 eNEWS
Negative Campaign Messages Recently, several local members have sent out emails endorsing candidates for Local 94 offices. Please be advised that should individual members consider endorsing individual slates or independent candidates, special care and careful consideration should be followed to ensure that the endorsement is of good taste and informs voters of the candidates' qualifications and platforms. Tactful and respectful endorsements are welcomed; misrepresentations are not.
Association of
Flight Attendants Council 94 DTW Officer
Elections Polls Open: 12:00
Noon ET, Friday September 21,
2007 Polls Close: 3:00 PM
ET, Friday October 12th,
2007 Vote by
Internet:
https://www.ballotpoint.com/afa/ Vote by Telephone: 1-877-AFA-VOTE (1-877-232-8683) If you experience any problems
with the voting system, please call the AFA Membership Services
Department at 1-800-424-2401, Extension 706, between 9:30 am and
5:30 pm ET. If you
do not remember your VIN and PIN and you cannot locate any
record of them, please contact Membership Services to obtain new
voting credentials.
Please save your VIN and PIN on your Voter Identification
Card for all future ballots. Only Local 94 Members in Good Standing can
vote (dues current and have a Membership Application on
file.) Apprentice
Members (on probation) cannot vote. You can pay all past due balances online at
www.afanet.org or by phone with
Membership Services.
A high voter turnout yields the most democratic result,
please VOTE! Quick Contract
Notes Please print the attached updated copy of the NWA
AFA-CWA Contract Quick Reference that was distributed to
flight attendant mailboxes last December. This will be posted on
www.afa94.org as well. Until the process of
proofing the contract and designing an index is completed,
always carry these quick reference notes and at least
Section 5 Hours of Service and Section 6
Scheduling with you from the Green Book. If you are on Reserve,
also carry Section 7 Reserve. In Memoriam -
Carla Yvonne
Rutledge It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of DTW-based Flight Attendant Carla Rutledge. Carla was hired on 8/22/77. Details are still unclear regarding the arrangements. Carla recently lost her battle with cancer. We believe at this time services will be in the ATL area on Thursday.
October Council Meeting Cancelled The monthly council
meeting on October 10th will be cancelled due to
scheduling conflicts with the AFA Board of Directors Meeting in
DTW
Flight Attendant Lounge Book Exchange New Contract
Implementation Tips – Items Starting October
1st The monthly
maximum was eliminated on open board “upward
adjustments.”
The monthly maximum for trades (OWT, Mutual, Downline,
Base, Trade for Greater) remains at 110 hours. With this change, High
Time has been eliminated.
Please take great care when bidding for upward
adjustments, since there is no maximum. Always use limiters in
your CENTRY requests, since CENTRY may now award you as many
patterns as match your request, as long as weekly and rest
limitations are met.
AFA is working on an option to allow a simple Yes/No
election in CENTRY for over 100 hour upward requests.
Trades for
Greater and Equal processed together as a Category 12 in
seniority order. Previously trades for Greater were processed
before equal trades.
Reserve Increase Adjustment (RIA) allows a Reserve
to pick up a trip in SLAP, departing the next day, that operates
on days off (PDOs) and does not interfere with RDs in any
way. RIA is always
paid above the Reserve guarantee (unlike OWT, which offsets the
guarantee.) RIA is
isolated from Reserve Projection and from most legalities;
except
Fly safe and fly the
contract! Your Local 94
Executive Council: Local Council Representative
Belea Bower bbower@nwaafa.org Local Council Representative
Jeff Martoia jmartoia@nwaafa.org Local Council Representative
Janette Rook jrook@nwaafa.org
Secretary Anthony Hytche
ahytche@nwaafa.org
Vice President John
O’Donnell jodonnell@nwaafa.org
President Susan Ludwig sludwig@nwaafa.org |
