Stronger Together ~ Better Together
Stronger Together ~ Better Together
Horizon Negotiations Update June 2019 AFA and management met again in Seattle on June 4-6, 2019. AFA’s committee members are MEC President Ed Hawes; Flight Attendants Joelle Jaeger and Tanya Phillips; and our professional negotiator and attorney, Kimberley Chaput. Management’s…
HZN AFA MASTER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CHAIR OPENING CREW PLANNING LIAISON (Scheduling) The Master Executive Council has an immediate opening for interested AFA members who wish to make a difference in the lives of their fellow flight attendants…
July Bid 323 – Scheduling Notes July will be our fourth full month of mixed-pairing flying. With it, there were a total of 1,562 trips between all bases. Of those, 304 are all Q400 flying and 327 are all E175 flying. That’s…
Your AFA ACT Chairs and Negotiating Committee put out a Flight Attendant survey in April to gauge what type of communication and media is most important to the Flight Attendants now that negotiations are well underway. The questions included which platform you preferred to receive the monthly negotiation updates, if you found the updates from the previous…
Hello, Our AFA Negotiation Committee members and ACT Chairs would like to introduce the newest volunteer members of our negotiation team, ACTivists. These newest fellow members will be available to assist with answering questions and providing the latest information from…
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;…
