Hector Shakes Up Inflight

[beachboy]

This came down this afternoon. Glad to see the positive move. The only thing I would add is pay your supervisors accordingly. Your Flight Attendants make more than their supervisors. All of them are in there to avoid the draconian rsv system on the East. But I also hear they all must "re-interview" on some level. I love it!


AFA 66 eCommunication - Thursday, September 10, 2009

US Airways Announces Changes to Inflight Services


US Airways Announces Changes to Inflight Services

VP of Inflight Services, Hector Adler, announced changes
to the organizational structure within the Inflight Services
department this morning. Following is a letter from Adler
outlining the Company?s strategy and general information
regarding changes within the department.

I am pleased to announce a new organizational structure for the
InFlight division that will pave the way to achieve more
consistent service delivery to our customers, increase the
quality of our work product, and provide greater support to our
flight attendants.

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[Travelpro72]

But....but without the specialists cruising the terminals how will I know how to use my HHD? Who will be monitoring ALLLL of those flights all day? Get ready to go back on the line sista's.

 

[beachboy]

I think this is a good move. I miss the days when we had decent supervisors that liked the job. Now it's become a haven for jr rsv people to escape. They are overworked and take the frustration out on us. Has to stop Period.

 

[iwantout]

I miss the days when we had decent supervisors that liked the job.

When were those days?

 

[theFLYonthewall]

When were those days?

Those days were before the AWA management decided they knew how to run a global airline on a regional thought process and budget.

The sad thing is this management has always run on fear and intimidation. No disrespect to the former AWA flight attendants but they have always been treated like this by inflight and their supervisors. I don't think the AWA management counted on the "East" flight attendants. WE are not nor ever have been afraid of or intimidated by our management. Obviously we have never been treated this way by any other management team we have had. Yes, we have had some lously supervisors, but we were never treated with such disrespect and made to feel as though we need a babysitter. We have flight attendants on the property that have more seniority then this management team has been alive, where is the respect for their experience? Over the past several years we have been treated as though we have never stepped foot on an airplane before, never stood in the face of a passenger and had to explain this company and their idiotic policies and procedures. The only nice thing about it is this company is an equal opportunity employer, they also treat their inflight supervisors like incompentent go-betweens, everything has to be an executive decision. If you can't hire people in these positions and give them the ability to make an intelligent decision without having to run to Tempe for guidance, then why bother to even have the positions on the payroll?

You shouldn't have to call the union to have them call your supervisor to advise them they are not following our contract. Of course they are not following our contract they are following the direction of their superior who is telling them this is how we want it done, hoping we will just allow it to set a precidence and or a past practice. Sadly, our union representation needs a firecracker lit up under their butts to get them motivated. I am not based in PHL but I have seen email exchanges between PHL's LECP and members where he says, we need to maintain a good working relationship with inflight. I agree, but you don't lay down and roll over like a beagle either. Show your teeth like a "PITBULL".

 

[Glucose Intolerant]

Those days were before the AWA management decided they knew how to run a global airline on a regional thought process and budget.

The sad thing is this management has always run on fear and intimidation. Show your teeth like a "PITBULL".

Spot On - Excellent Post

Unfortunately the FA's now only has a Chihuahua, St. Bernard, and a Pekinese that's only trick so far is to ROLL OVER.

It's time to bring a BIG DOG to the discussion that's BITE is worse than it's BARK.

Woof Woof

 

[iwantout]

When were those days?

Again I ask can someone tell me when were those days?

 

[UPNAWAY]

Only in the bazzaro world of unionized labor does the dog want to bite the hand that feeds them!

 

[cltrat]

Only in the bazzaro world of unionized labor does the dog want to bite the hand that feeds them!

only in the fantasy world of management does the dog just lay there while management reaps bonus after bonus at the dog's expense

 

[UPNAWAY]

You folks realize that in all non union works areas most of these employees vs. management issues do not exist and people do not waste their time worring about every little thing. Everyone just does their jobs.

Also the head of the AFL-CIO just said yesterday all this “us verses themâ€￾ mentality and the biting rhetoric that goes with it (almost exclusively from the union side) is not in unions best interest and he wants to see them foster better working relations with companies.

 

[UPNAWAY]

Hate to say it 700 but most of America will disagree with you. If not for government employees, unions would probably would be on the endangered species list.
You are working and believing in a system that is way past its prime!

 

[700UW]

Go ask Doug why he has a contract?

Ask any of the executive and BOD members why they have a contract?

Look at WN, highest percentage of unionized employees, highest paid and moist profitable, look at the industry as a whole, there is a specific reason why unions are necessary in aviation.

 

[john john]

If not for government employees, unions would probably would be on the endangered species list.

America would not be America

 

[UPNAWAY]

Sorry you guys love and are blinded by unionism, but the rest of America is not and tht is a fact.

Another fact is you all would make more money and have more fulfilling airline careers if the industry had never gone the union route!

End of my anti-union rant for the day, it is pointless discussing it with sheeple!

 

[john john]

Another fact is you all would make more money and have more fulfilling airline careers if the industry had never gone the union route!

You do realize organizing efforts among airline pilots began in the late 1920's.
And the Air Line Stewardesses Association (ALSA) formed
in 1946, and joined the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association
(ALSSA), a division of ALPA, in 1950. That entity subsequently
renamed itself the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA)
The unions have been involve with the airlines since there conception
You need a history lesson