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UPCOMING EVENTS
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MEC
CREW ROOM VISITS
Come meet the Master
Executive Council on the following dates at your
base!
JAN 17, 18
DALLAS
JAN 30, 31
BOSTON
FEB 2, 3
LAGUARDIA
FEB 19, 20
SAN JUAN
MAR 1, 2
MIAMI
MAR 19, 20, 21
CHICAGO
MAR 29, 30
LOS
ANGELES
This bulletin was produced
by the Association of Flight Attendants for its
members at American Eagle.
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ARBITRATION VICTORY FOR AFA!
The
Association met with the Company on December 11,
2001, to discuss their newly revised FMLA
policy. The Association learned at that
meeting, that we had a dispute with regard to
the use of accrued vacation time. The Company
intended to require Flight Attendants to use
their unused/accrued vacation time when taking
FMLA to care for an eligible family member.
Although the law permits this, the Association
believed that the Collective Bargaining
Agreement protected the rights of Flight
Attendants to select their own vacation blocks
through a seniority bidding and awarding
process. Additionally, under the collective
bargaining agreement, Flight Attendants are
prohibited from changing awarded vacation blocks
unless the parameters of Section 10 are adhered
to.
An MEC
(Master Executive Council) grievance was filed
on December 12, 2001, on behalf of all American
Eagle Flight Attendants. The grievance was
submitted to the System Board of Adjustment and
arbitrated on October 2, 2003.
I am happy to announce
that Arbitrator Tia Schneider-Denenberg,
sustained the grievance. Her decision stated:
"The
collective bargaining agreement is violated when
the company requires flight attendants to
deplete their annual accrued vacation allotment
before beginning unpaid leave to care for an
eligible family member. As a remedy, the company
is enjoined from requiring flight attendants to
deplete their accrued vacation in order to take
such unpaid family leave."
In
Solidarity,
Debora Sutor
AFA MEC
Grievance Chair
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