The Following MEC (Master Executive
Council) Grievances have recently been filed to uphold
the rights of all American Eagle Flight Attendants
system wide. If your rights have been violated under one
of the challenges listed below, you will need to contact
your Local Council President and provide the appropriate
documentation/evidence. Should AFA prevail in
arbitration, you may be entitled to relief, but the Union must have been made aware of the fact that your
rights have been violated.
22-99-2-93-06
Requirement to be Scheduled as Both
a Lineholding and Reserve Flight
Attendant
This grievance challenges the Company’s
action of requiring Flight Attendants to perform duties
as both a Lineholder and a Reserve Flight Attendant
within the same duty period without benefit of a
contractual rest period. This seems to occur primarily
over transition when a Flight Attendant is a lineholder
in the current month and is awarded a reserve line the
following month. The Company is requiring the Flight
Attendant to finish the current month’s trip sequence
and then, without placing her/him into rest, requiring
them to begin serving reserve availability. The
computer is not capable of designating that a Flight
Attendant is being scheduled for both a trip sequence
and reserve availability. Thus, a Flight Attendant is
vulnerable to receiving a MA for assignments that may be
given while on the RAP, but after they have completed
their trip sequence. ALPA currently has an arbitration
pending on the same issue. The
Union and the Company have agreed to hold
this grievance in abeyance until such time as a decision
has been rendered in the ALPA case. The parties will
reevaluate the grievance at that time.
Should your rights have been violated,
please provide your Local President with the following
documentation:
1) Copy
of your current month’s HI1.
2) Copy
of your new month’s HI1
3) Any
e-mail messages or written documentation received from
the Company that relates to this matter. (i.e.
notification of responsibility to be available on
Reserve)
4) Any
other documentation that may relate to this matter.
22-99-2-103-06
Section 10.M.1. 2% PO Daily Domicile Cap
This grievance challenges the Company’s
method of calculating the 2% daily
PO cap in each domicile as referenced in
Section 10.M.1., of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The Company’s position is that the overnighting leg back
to base on the day following the actual date the PO was
taken or the leg into an overnight prior to the actual
date the PO was taken, will count as a PO for purposes
of calculating the 2% cap. While this will continue to
be documented as only one countable
attendance occurrence towards your personal record as a
Flight Attendant, it will count as two POs
towards each day’s 2% cap for the domicile, even though
it only constitutes one leg back to base. This could
result in your being denied the right to take a PO on a specific date as requested.
AFA has challenged the Company’s position
in the matter as we believe these incidental legs should
not be counted for purposes of calculating the daily 2%
PO cap per domicile.
Should you be denied the right to take a PO as a result of this violation, please contact your
Local Council President and provide the following
documentation:
1) Copy
of PO request form or e-mail message.
2) If
you do not have a copy of the form or an e-mail message,
provide the date and time the request was submitted to
the company.
3) Copy
of the Trip Sequence or Reserve Availability Periods
that operated on the date(s) you requested the PO(s).
4) Copy
of any other written communication between yourself and
the Company regarding the matter. For example, an e-mail
of denial from the Company.
Fatigue Board Meeting
Please be advised that the next meeting
of the Fatigue Board will take place in
Dallas
on January 24, 2007. Only cases that have been
challenged via the form posted on the AFA American Eagle
website will be discussed.
