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Greetings,
Attention Flight Attendants who have
been on Workers Compensation Leaves!
With the recent attention paid by
American Eagle to flight attendants who have been on workers
compensation leaves, via such items as the recently distributed
“We’re Concerned About Your Safety” memorandum AFA is currently
investigating the company’s treatment of flight attendants who
have been injured in the course of their employment and received
workers comp benefits.
While we have not been able to reach
any conclusions, we suspect that American Eagle has begun to
discipline certain flight attendants who have been injured on
duty by characterizing their injuries as resulting from a
failure to observe one or another Work Rules. AFA’s position is
that disciplining a flight attendant for suffering an injury on
duty violates the collective bargaining agreement and may
violate the workers compensation laws of one of more states
where the company maintains the flight attendant domiciles.
If you have been injured on duty and
it was reported to the company, then were subsequently
disciplined in connection with the incident which caused the
injury, we need to know about this.
Please send the following documents
to the MEC:
1. A written description of the
incident
2. A copy of the letter from
American Eagle issuing the discipline to you
3. A copy of the page(s) of your
attendance record (Form C-23) showing the workers comp/IOD leave
4. A copy of the page(s) of the
Supervisor’s Record of Discussion (Form C-21) listing the
discussion(s) your supervisor had with you about the IOD and the
discipline
5. A copy of your HI10.
Debora Sutor, Chair
Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO
American Eagle Airlines
Master Executive Council
Grievance Committee
One O’Hare Centre
Alternatively, you may
FAX the information to the following FAX number:
(847) 292-7180 (Please use a cover
sheet directing that the information be delivered to Debora
Sutor,
or you may scan the documents and
send the to Debora Sutor at the following email address:
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