LINK: http://www.afausairways.org/Eline/apr10_07.htm
The AFA Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) will meet with the Company on April 11-13 in CLT. As you know negotiations have been ongoing for over a year and continue at a slow pace. The JNC's focus is to negotiate a contract that fully addresses the needs of all of our members. Two major items are driving the single agreement negotiations; 1) significant differences exist between the East and West contracts and those differences must be synched to meet the needs of both work groups and, 2) this negotiation affords us the opportunity to fight back and recapture as much as we can lost in three previous concessionary agreements.
Tidbits:
There are significant differences in the pay scales in the East and West agreements. The West pay rates are far lower than those on the East.
We have agreed in principal to provision in Training that raises training pay from $60 per day to 3+hours pay/credit. We have also "agreed to" a provision that eliminates the long days for Flight Attending from outside the CLT domicile. The day will be limited to 16 hours (including report for the DH, Training and check-out after the DH. Any day exceeding 16 hours would require, at the Flight Attendants option, overnight lodging and pay for the day of travel.
The Uniform Section is nearing completion with the only open items being a formula for replacement of uniform items in excess of the standard compliment and the return of the $20.00 monthly cleaning allowance
At our last session we passed a very fair and comprehensive Leaves of Absence Section to the Company that addresses the reductions to accrual for longevity for pay and vacation, medical coverage and travel that were lost during the concessionary agreements. The proposal also contains lower hour requirements for FMLA. It is ludicrous to have a standard that almost none of our Reserves or low time flyers can meet. There is something wrong when a part-time grocery store clerk who averages 25 hours per week of work can qualify for FMLA but a full time Reserve Flight Attendant does not. We expect the Company's counter to our proposal this week.
Read the E-Line for further details.
only stating opinions
The AFA Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) will meet with the Company on April 11-13 in CLT. As you know negotiations have been ongoing for over a year and continue at a slow pace. The JNC's focus is to negotiate a contract that fully addresses the needs of all of our members. Two major items are driving the single agreement negotiations; 1) significant differences exist between the East and West contracts and those differences must be synched to meet the needs of both work groups and, 2) this negotiation affords us the opportunity to fight back and recapture as much as we can lost in three previous concessionary agreements.
Tidbits:
There are significant differences in the pay scales in the East and West agreements. The West pay rates are far lower than those on the East.
We have agreed in principal to provision in Training that raises training pay from $60 per day to 3+hours pay/credit. We have also "agreed to" a provision that eliminates the long days for Flight Attending from outside the CLT domicile. The day will be limited to 16 hours (including report for the DH, Training and check-out after the DH. Any day exceeding 16 hours would require, at the Flight Attendants option, overnight lodging and pay for the day of travel.
The Uniform Section is nearing completion with the only open items being a formula for replacement of uniform items in excess of the standard compliment and the return of the $20.00 monthly cleaning allowance
At our last session we passed a very fair and comprehensive Leaves of Absence Section to the Company that addresses the reductions to accrual for longevity for pay and vacation, medical coverage and travel that were lost during the concessionary agreements. The proposal also contains lower hour requirements for FMLA. It is ludicrous to have a standard that almost none of our Reserves or low time flyers can meet. There is something wrong when a part-time grocery store clerk who averages 25 hours per week of work can qualify for FMLA but a full time Reserve Flight Attendant does not. We expect the Company's counter to our proposal this week.
Read the E-Line for further details.
only stating opinions
So I think it was both sides the Old US AIR and AFA (MEC).... 
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