Stronger Together ~ Better Together
Stronger Together ~ Better Together
AFA Master Executive Council Grievance Mixed Pairings O6-99-02-06-19 On Tuesday, May 21, our AFA MEC grievance team along with inflight management, met with our grievance mediator, Eva Durham, National Mediation Board Mediator. In this session we discussed AFA’s MEC grievance…
FDA requires stronger warnings about rare but serious incidents related to sleep medications Updated warnings for eszopiclon (Lunesta) zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem(Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, Intermezzo, and Zolpimist). At the end of April 2019, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
Back in April inflight management implemented mixed pairings to help drive better efficiencies, as they understood them. Since then, Kieran Whitney, our former Managing Director of Inflight, has moved back over to Alaska. The downside of this is that Kieran…
HZN AFA ACT NEGOTIATIONS REMINDER Hello Everyone, This is a friendly reminder that our next SEA and PDX ACT sits are fast approaching for June. Negotiations will begin June 4th and finish June 6th. The schedule for the ACT crew…
ASHS Report Out from April DAG Meeting First, we would like to start by giving you a little background on our committee. The Air, Safety, Health and Security (ASHS) Committee consists of the AFA MEC Chair, Bryan Grosvold – SEA;…
2019 CIRP Recurrent May 14th CIRP, Critical Incident Response Program, is a company-wide program for both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. It is a group of trained volunteers who can respond to any abnormally stressful or traumatic incident involving any…
Notice of clarifying collective bargaining agreement (CBA) language for Reserve Flight Attendants; The MEC recently executed a Letter of Understanding (LOU) with inflight management that clarifies Short-Call Reserve Report time duties upon arrival at their domicile airport for a reserve…
YOU DID IT! Your voice was heard! Due to your diligence in filing reports in Crew Connex, your Hotel Committee was able to show the company that the Courtyard Lynnwood was the better fit of our needs to ensure our…
The MEC (Master Executive Council) Officers want to take a moment to reiterate the importance and value of filing grievances/reports when you feel the collective bargaining agreement (contract) has been violated; and/or reporting issues when the company is not complying with their contractual obligations. Much like…
MEC Reserve List Days of Availability Grievance Settlement 06-99-02-03-19 In January 2019, the MEC was made aware that the Reserve List was not accurately displaying reserve days of availability. The MEC grieved on behalf of all flight attendants who sat…
