F/a Cabin Cleaning Duties

[usairways_vote_NO]

Just try it!!! 😉

[post="253266"][/post]​

Makes sense to me. What about all those crushed crackers etc all over the floor after siblings and/or adults finish what looks like a food fight or war zone.

 

[North by Northwest]

Cabin Crew wear a lot of hats...is picking up snott rags now one of em? It speaks more to the sod that is too lazy to walk their fat (hamburger chompin ) fanny to the lav to dispose if it like a decent human being. One that has been raised in a house instead of a barn. (and not a fancy this ol'house redo barn either)

 

[DR.EVIL]

You should ALWAYS use gloves, you do not know what is on the items you are picking up.

It is just plain gross if you don't.

[post="253267"][/post]​

Especially when you are picking up your new iam contract! 😱 😛 :down:
Thanks to your inept negotiating skills!!

 

[700UW]

Get real.

 

[fatherof2]

fatherof2,
Was it a hub city? There are alot of cities that are cleaning stations.

[post="253244"][/post]​

On March 1, 2005, the new cabin cleaning provision of the AFA-USAirways Flight Attendant agreement went into effect. Flight Attendants are responsible for cleaning the aircraft upon arrival at ALL domestic stations, including NAS, with the exception of the following:
-Flight segments originating or terminating in airports west of MCI
DEN, DFW, EGE, IAH, LAS, LAX, PHX, SAN, SEA, and SFO.
-Transoceanic International Flights / Non-transoceanic International flight segments.
The F/As on post arrival will accomplish the following;
-Collect papers and refuse / cross seat belts/ stow pillows and blankets in overhead compartments / return seat backs and tray tables to full and upright position/ REMOVE VISIBLE items from seatback pockets / collect and stow magazines / and place all paper and refuse collected into refuse bins.

Utility personnel will continue lavatory cleaning, restocking of supplies and refuse removal. In addition, Utility personnel will continue to perform and complete Security Checks.

should a situation arise in-flight that requires special cleaning beyond the procedures described above, the flight crew will call ahead and notify the inbound station of the special cleaning request.

This is a memo given to all utility in CLT and posted for March. B)

 

[fatherof2]

Utility also gets rubber gloves. FA's get nothing. Lets all look down on the flight attendant who did not want to touch a used kleenex/snot rag with there bare hands. Not the pig who sneezed and wiped there nose with this and left it for someone else to pick up.

[post="253248"][/post]​

Utility also got shown the door, so take the Nike way Mike "JUST DO IT"

 

[700UW]

The company and the Association further understand and agree that this Letter of Agreement has the effect of (1) modifying Section 30F of the 2004 AFA-US Airways Agreement and (2) eliminating Letter of Agreement #21 dated March 25, 2000, and as modified by the December 3, 2002 letter from Michael J. Minerva to Perry Hayes. This Letter of Agreement does not require any flight attendant to engage in any individual cabin cleaning duty where doing so violates the scope provision then-governing any other non-flight attendant who both is employed by US Airways, Inc. and represented by any other union. Flight Attendants, however, will be required to perform all of the cabin cleaning duties defined above even instances where the Company has contracted vendor cleaners on duty.

 

[fatherof2]

The company and the Association further understand and agree that this Letter of Agreement has the effect of (1) modifying Section 30F of the 2004 AFA-US Airways Agreement and (2) eliminating Letter of Agreement #21 dated March 25, 2000, and as modified by the December 3, 2002 letter from Michael J. Minerva to Perry Hayes. This Letter of Agreement does not require any flight attendant to engage in any individual cabin cleaning duty where doing so violates the scope provision then-governing any other non-flight attendant who both is employed by US Airways, Inc. and represented by any other union. Flight Attendants, however, will be required to perform all of the cabin cleaning duties defined above even instances where the Company has contracted vendor cleaners on duty.

[post="253336"][/post]​

Any chance of the rest of us getting a copy of the contract before the door closes and hits us in the arse?.......Didn't think so! So the IAM can stick their contract you know where. The letter was posted by mgmt. And I will comply with said letter until my last day! 😉

 

[Travelpro72]

A thing to remember while cleaning the cabin of a 757 or 767 domestically for that matter is that when the union says that we are responsible for "crossing seatbelts" that constitutes moving the hanging belts out of the aisle. During a full day of flying how often have the seatbelts all been crossed. We all know that only happens on an originator. Also, how about doing all of this in your uniform. Especially the women with their skirts and heels. Don't tear your uniform because we have NO contract with Cintas to replace it. Not even if you wanna buy it. I agree with the announcements being made prior to landing. If the announcement is being made and you are walking through they will clean around them. We keep getting updates to the cleaning stations. Read it and be aware of when and where you are to clean. We never asked for this but we got it..... the LEAST of my worried in the big scheme of things.

 

[F/AinDay]

This is all very confusing, here is the last memo we received from Teddy:

Dear Members,

Please be compliant with the "side letter" regarding "Flight
Attendant Cabin Cleaning".

The IAM Utility are still responsible to clean ALL HUBS first
and second shifts.

Until such time, utility is no longer responsible for this work,
flight attendants ARE NOT responsible to clean in those
stations.

We will let you know when this occurs.

If an agent or pilot are pressuring you, please show them the
"side letter" (see below).

Teddy
MEC President, AFA-CWA

 

[Travelpro72]

I read the new e-line today as well. What the hell is that to mean. Now not only do we have to clean but need to know scheduled shifts of cleaners. How are we to know when then. Take an agents word for it. I think this whole thing is crazy. I have no problem doing it but as usual this co. makes everything so damn simple into a fiasco. To clean or not to clean, that is the question.....LOL

 

[Light Years]

100% correct!

[post="253257"][/post]​

Uh, no.

Totally different pairs of gloves. There are gloves for emergencies and gloves for cleaning. They are contractually required on the 170, so I would think they'd be required on big-mainline as well.

 

[Travelpro72]

Even on transatlantic flights which i work we have glove shortages. Thats where we serve hot meals still and have to tear the plane apart to find gloves. I cant wait for mainline domestic come May.....yippeeeeeee.

 

[Light Years]

All they are really being asked to do is cross seatbelts. Like xoxo said, if you ask people to take stuff out of thier seat pockets they will. Crossing seatbelts isn't a big deal, and it makes the cabin look much nicer. No one has Mommie Dearest over them making them scrub floors in thier coat dress or anything. There is alot more to worry about than cleaning the plane.

Where was all of the outrage when the 170 Division started? When it did, the F/As were expected to roll the double trash cart (same one from the Airbuses) onto the jetway and change the garbage, plus the galley and lav trash on top of tidying the cabin. (Not to mention they were five year mainline employees but were not give health insurance for six months, or new uniform pieces.) Thankfully they got the company to change it so if they need it changed they just clean the cabin, someone else empties the trash carts. I suspect if they hadn't gotten this changed, big-mainline would have been expected to do it as well.

I don't remember anyone at mainline being so outraged that the junior F/As were expected to change trash carts. It's just another case of okay for them, not ok for me.

Take the buyout if you don't want to tidy the cabin. The job has always included some handling of trash. There's just too many people who want thier job back for people to be complaining about this.

 

[usairways_vote_NO]

This is all very confusing, here is the last memo we received from Teddy:


The IAM Utility are still responsible to clean ALL HUBS first
and second shifts.


Teddy
MEC President, AFA-CWA

[post="253403"][/post]​

What part didn't you understand? If it is the highlighted part it should read more like

The IAM Utility are still responsible to clean ALL HUBS on first and second shifts.
Or in other words utility cleans all flights on daylight and afternoons in hub cities except the RON's