CWA action to company on retiree travel
WHERE IS THE IAM ON THIS POSITION
RE: Grievance Number #06-1283 - Contract/Past Practice Violation, Retiree
Boarding Priority for Non-Revenue, On-line Travel
Dear Mr. Harbinson,
This Union Grievance filed at the Staff level and referenced above is
presented for the continued violation of established travel benefits,
specific to non-revenue, online boarding priority as provided for in Article
8, Article 34 and any other Articles of the Collective Bargaining Agreement
that may apply. Moreover, this grievance is applicable to a long-standing
boarding past practice for active and retired Passenger Service Craft or
Class. Prior to a unilateral policy change made by the Company of the
long-instituted non-revenue boarding priority for qualified retired
employees and qualified family members as listed on the employee's Term Pass
have historically held the identical boarding priority, in accordance with
the employee's date of hire seniority, as active employees for the purposes
of non-revenue, online travel. The Company, under a new directive, requires
all retirees and their eligible family members to board a flight, exercising
their travel benefits, only after the least senior active employee and/or
their family has boarded, thus rendering the retiree's seniority useless,
except within the retiree pool, and consequently disenfranchising long-term,
career retired employees from a benefit long enjoyed by retirees for
decades.
As remedy, the Company shall immediately rescind and reverse improper
boarding priority for retirees and their qualified family members and return
the boarding priority for retirees to the former priority, identical to
active employees.
Sincerely ,
Timothy C. Yost
CWA Staff Representative
WHERE IS THE IAM ON THIS POSITION
RE: Grievance Number #06-1283 - Contract/Past Practice Violation, Retiree
Boarding Priority for Non-Revenue, On-line Travel
Dear Mr. Harbinson,
This Union Grievance filed at the Staff level and referenced above is
presented for the continued violation of established travel benefits,
specific to non-revenue, online boarding priority as provided for in Article
8, Article 34 and any other Articles of the Collective Bargaining Agreement
that may apply. Moreover, this grievance is applicable to a long-standing
boarding past practice for active and retired Passenger Service Craft or
Class. Prior to a unilateral policy change made by the Company of the
long-instituted non-revenue boarding priority for qualified retired
employees and qualified family members as listed on the employee's Term Pass
have historically held the identical boarding priority, in accordance with
the employee's date of hire seniority, as active employees for the purposes
of non-revenue, online travel. The Company, under a new directive, requires
all retirees and their eligible family members to board a flight, exercising
their travel benefits, only after the least senior active employee and/or
their family has boarded, thus rendering the retiree's seniority useless,
except within the retiree pool, and consequently disenfranchising long-term,
career retired employees from a benefit long enjoyed by retirees for
decades.
As remedy, the Company shall immediately rescind and reverse improper
boarding priority for retirees and their qualified family members and return
the boarding priority for retirees to the former priority, identical to
active employees.
Sincerely ,
Timothy C. Yost
CWA Staff Representative
