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MEX
Cancellations Pay Protections - Grievance filed
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Letters of
Apology - US Airways Magazine Advertisement
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AFA Benefits Q &
A Boston Crew Room
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Aircraft visits
by Flight Attendants on Company Business/Company Projects
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Hand washing
between flights
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HHD
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Welcome Aboard U
S Wal-Mart....
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Company
Conference Calls
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Council 69/BOS
LEC Representatives - Contact Information
Dear Members,
Union Voice Union Commentary Union E-Line
MEX Cancellations Pay Protections - Grievance filed
The union has filed a MEC Grievance regarding the pay
protections of flight attendants affected by cancelled MEX
destination flights/pairings. As noted, in the past the company
recognized the financial hit to the flight attendant and was
willing to extend more pay protections in addition to the
contractual provisions. Additionally, the company is in
violation of applying ETB time flown against any claim realized
up to 71:00 guarantee. This management group was not interested
in providing any other provisions and disregarded any past
practice pay provisions.
Letters of Apology - US Airways Magazine Advertisement
Thanks. We all feel so much more respected.
AFA Benefits Q & A Boston Crew Room
Paul Frishkorn, AFA MEC Benefits Chairperson will be available
in the Boston crew room on Tuesday, June 9th from 9:30a.m. -
3:30p.m. to answer any of your benefit questions concerning:
PBGC PENSION - 401 K PROGRAM - DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM -
HEALTH INSURANCE- CAREMARK PRESCRIPTION PROGRAM -DENTAL
INSURANCE - VISION INSURANCE - WORKERS COMPENSATION (OJI) -
FMLA/PCL - MATERNITY BENEFITS - UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION -
HEALTH INSURANCE UNDER 65 - HCTC - HEALTH INSURANCE OVER 65 -
VEBA- Have your questions/concerns ready and please consider
stopping by.
Aircraft visits by Flight Attendants on Company
Business/Company Projects
Anytime a flight attendant working on behalf of the company
steps on an airplane to ask you questions, provides information,
instruction, etc. it would be respectful of them to introduce
themselves and to explain their purpose. If it is during a
period of down time and you wish to take the time to eat a meal,
review mail, sit quietly prior to the next flight, walk into the
terminal to purchase food, use the facilities, etc. nothing says
you have to stay for any instruction or questions. There is no
training between flights. You may want to politely and
respectfully decline spending time with this flight attendant on
company business during your down time. The individual should
not be discussing discipline for compliance issues. If you
encounter such an individual making statements of impending
discipline for compliance issues, there is no need to debate the
issue, please provide documentation of such to the local union
office/representative and we will in turn provide it to the
company to investigate and address.
Hand washing between flights
If the water is shut off on the aircraft between flights so not
to allow you to thoroughly wash your hands after tidying, please
provide this documentation to the local safety representative.
jatwood@afausairways.org - flight # /date/a/c# - The practice of
shutting down the water supply between flights does not seem
prudent in this Swine flu environment. This information can be
provided to the company to discuss temporary options until the
concern level about the spread of Swine flu is lifted.
HHD
Can it submit, does it submit, where does it submit..there is
only one on board, where is the other one and on and on and on.
Safety comes first and foremost at all times. If the HHD is not
working properly and it is consuming your time, becomes
distracting, do not let it interrupt your safety responsibilites
as these are FAA required. You cannot get fined for not using an
HHD you can get fined by the FAA for not following safety
procedures. Place an inop tag on it, advise a product specialist
if available, move on and use the paper documents provided for
sales on board the aircraft. The company will not implode if you
can not submit that day on that flight. Please, stay focused on
safety.
AFA has not seen any document showing any HHD submissions, how
anything is calculated, who exactly ( Mr. Clack?) is responsible
for reviewing the day to day submissions, how many people are
doing this reviewing and /or what pertinent information is the
company receiving to operate more efficiently, how many millions
of dollars it is saving the company... it is a mystery. Catering
will supply a cart filled with pillow sacks locked up with a
white seal. Why does a flight attendant have to re- inventory
this? Are we checking up on catering? On the vendor that
supplies this product? How come no one else is held accountable
for their work accept the flight attendants? Like I said, it is
a mystery....
Welcome Aboard U S Wal-Mart....
Have we become a flying Wal-Mart.....are we considered flight
'associates' ...For whatever reason, some Einstein thinks it is
a great idea to sell these products on flights but also on
Shuttle flights. It was recommended that we just do not have the
time on most of these shuttle flights and we should not
compromise safety to sell 'Twizzlers'. It is impossible. The
company touts 'consistency'. How consistent will it be when very
few shuttle flights may be able to handle selling these products
without compromising safety? File this under: this will take 17
or 18 company conference calls, a production of sample sheets
cluttering shelves in crew rooms, CBS 'must read' messages,
flight attendants on company business visiting planes doing crew
room sits displaying the products for sale taking/ asking
questions, surveys taken not made public / not considered. In
the end, the flight attendants will ultimately make the
executive decision to maintain safety first while many in
management do all this 'busy work' trying to figure out how to
be consistent. The Shuttle market is a different product and
when will this company, way out west, start to realize or listen
to the many that have stated this fact to this management
group..ahhh, yes, the answer, yet another mystery.
Company Conference Calls
If the company schedules a conference call with a flight
attendant and states it is required, it is the same as a
meeting. AFA Contract Sec 24 F 8 - A flight attendant who is
required to meet with a Company representative shall be entitled
to be accompanied by his/her UNION ELECTED representative or
another flight attendant, if the flight attendant so desires. If
you ever have any questions about meeting/conferencing with
company representatives, it may be wise to contact your local
union representatives prior to the call.
Council 69
Officers
Lynne Caramello
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LECP/BOS
LCaramello@afausairways.org
HM Office 781 289 8454
Mobile 617 470 3872
FAX 1 206 289 8457
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Council
69/BOS LEC Representatives - Contact Information
Lynne Caramello - LECP -
LCaramello@afausairways.org
Sherri Baker -
LECVP -
SBaker@afausairways.org
Sherri Baker - Reserve Representative -
sbaker@afausairways.org
Jill Atwood - LEC Secretary -
JAtwood@afausairways.org
Jill Atwood - LEC Safety Representative -
JAtwood@afausairways.org
Heather Santello - LEC Uniform Representative
FYI
- Do you have the MedLink number to program in your cell phone -
1-602 239-3627 / program it in now. Should you find yourself
or another crewmember needing Medlink on a layover you can call
this number.
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Do you have the Flightline questions number? - 1 800 659
9859
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