Weekly report 5-31-09

General Items

Because of negotiations last week there is not much to report.

If you haven't already seen the update here it is. Also here is the Unions Non-Economic Opening Proposal. Many proposals that were made by the mechanics at Dulles are addressed with this proposal, such as Field Service language, updated Grievance processes, and improved Layoff and Recall language. I encourage you to take the time to review the opener and ask questions or provide feedback. There is a link to e-mail the Negotiating team here.

A former ALPA Attorney, Steve Nagrotsky, has been named as Deputy Director of the Airline Division. This was addressed in the Week in Review on Friday. If you don't already get the Week in Review you can sign up to receive it electronically on the link above.

MM

All the recall letters have gone out and for those on layoff if you haven't received yours yet please contact me at the office.

Upon my return last week several mechanics informed me that the Company has taken the position that the new cabin crew will be assigned to an eight hour midnight shift on a separate overtime and vacation list. The Company claims all the other hubs are doing this, so we should as well. When I talked to the other Coordinators none of them agreed to set up the crew this way. Unfortunately for the Company the vacation piece would be governed by the Local Vacation rules and the same is true for the overtime list. In fact there are no Local Overtime rules so the Company has no right to unilaterally make a new rule outside of the agreement. I will discuss this issue with them this week.

A second step for Lead Bypass is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

GQ

There is nothing new to report for GQ this week.

PV

The Labor Management meeting was canceled last week. There are a couple of first steps that will be discussed with Steve this week. In addition some more research will be done on the Jetway grievance prior to filing.

That's all for this week,

Bob