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RED Hot Informational Picketing Bidding Reminder

Get ready to show your solidarity on November 12th

Please be sure to bid Wednesday, November 12 off for our next RED Hot informational picketing event!  If you aren’t able to bid the day off, you can also bid around the picketing time for your base.  Your Negotiating Committee is counting on your support to demonstrate our solidarity to management on the opening day of the scheduled November mediation session.  More information including a sign-up link and meeting location for each base will be coming soon!

Picketing times for each base

Base Time
ANC 12 to 2 PM
LAX 8 to 10 AM
PDX 6 to 8 AM
SAN 8 to 11 AM
SEA 3 to 5 PM

In Solidarity,

Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Yvette Gesch, Becky Strachan, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Sandra Morrow, Stephen Couckuyt and MEC Mobilization Chairperson Adam Clarey

Your Negotiating Committee – MEC President Jeffrey Peterson, Kristy Stratton, Lisa Pinkston, Jake Jones, Christina Frees and AFA Senior Staff Negotiator Paula Mastrangelo

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Your Negotiating Committee Thanks You…

Thank you!

Thank you to all of our Flight Attendants for your support today.

To those working and proudly wearing your red pin–thank you!

To those who helped organize and spread the word–thank you!

To those who showed up with signs and voices representing the entire work group–thank you!

Watching your solidarity shine today was encouraging and reenergizing. So many of you took the time to make this day a priority. We are proud and grateful.

We will continue to work hard to bring you what you’ve earned and deserve.

In solidarity,

Your Negotiating Committee—MEC President Jeffrey Peterson, Kristy Stratton, Lisa Pinkston, Jake Jones, Christina Frees and AFA Senior Staff Negotiator Paula Mastrangelo

 

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REMINDER: RED Hot Informational Picketing Tomorrow

Get ready to show your solidarity at tomorrow’s RED Hot informational picketing in all five bases!  The Negotiating Committee is currently at the table with management during this week’s mediation session.  Your support is critical to show management and the public that we stand behind our Negotiating Committee in their efforts to achieve the contractual improvements we deserve!

Click here to sign up to participate in tomorrow’s event

Information For Tomorrow

Picket times for each base are as follows:

ANC – 11 AM to 2 PM  ▪︎  LAX – 8 AM to 10 AM  ▪︎  PDX – 6 AM to 8 AM
SAN – 8 AM to 11 AM  ▪︎  SEA – 4 PM to 6 PM

Already Working?

If you’re already working tomorrow, you can show your support from wherever you are!  Take a picture with your RED AFA pin and share it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with hashtag #afaalaska.  Then check out our AFA Alaska tagboard at afaalaska.org/tagboard and watch our sea of RED online!

If you have any questions about tomorrow’s picketing event, contact your Local Mobilization Chairperson.  You’ll find contact information at afaalaska.org/mobilization.

Reminder: AFA RED Hot Summer Picnic – Wednesday, August 20th

Don’t forget that the AFA RED Hot Summer Picnic is coming up this Wednesday, August 20 from 1 to 4 PM at Angle Lake Park in SeaTac, WA. Alaska Airlines corporate headquarters, located next door, has a beautiful view of the park and Angle Lake. Let’s flood the park with a sea of RED and put our unity and solidarity on clear display!

The Details

  • Wear your RED AFA t-shirt to the event if you have one! We’ll have extra t-shirts available at the event if you haven’t received one.
  • Council 19 (SEA) will be providing hamburgers, hot dogs, and soda
  • If you’re coming from the Seattle area, please bring along a side dish or dessert to share family-style
  • Lawn chairs and blankets will help make you more comfortable at the event
  • If you’re coming from out of town, you’re welcome to use regular non-revenue travel to get to and from the picnic

Let Us Know You’re Coming!

Eventbrite - AFA RED Hot Summer Picnic

Questions?

Contact the Council 19 Seattle LEC Officers or email us at events@afaalaska.org

In Solidarity,

Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Yvette Gesch, Becky Strachan, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Sandra Morrow and Stephen Couckuyt

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August 27 RED Hot Informational Picketing – Sign Up Now!

Your AFA Negotiating Committee will go back to the table with management on August 25 in San Diego, CA for our next mediation session. As a show of support and solidarity for the Negotiating Committee, we will be conducting informational picketing on Wednesday, August 27 in each of our five bases. The Negotiating Committee is counting on you to show management and the public how serious we are about getting a contract with the improvements we deserve!

Sign Up Now And Show Your Support!

Click here to sign up now to participate in the August 27th event

Are you ready to turn up the heat? Your support is vital to help make the event successful. Help to turn the airport RED in solidarity! Click on your base below for times and details.

ANC  LAX  PDX  SAN  SEA

Already Working?

Show your solidarity by proudly wearing your RED AFA pin and RED Five Bases Standing Strong lanyard!

Specific Questions?

If you have specific questions about the event at your base, please contact your Local Mobilization Chairperson for assistance. You’ll find contact information at afaalaska.org/mobilization. You can also see the information below for more details.

In Solidarity,

Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Yvette Gesch, Becky Strachan, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Sandra Morrow and Stephen Couckuyt and

Your Negotiating Committee – MEC President Jeffrey Peterson, Kristy Stratton, Lisa Pinkston, Jake Jones, Christina Frees and AFA Senior Staff Negotiator Paula Mastrangelo

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ANC

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (AKDT)

Meeting Point
Meet on the departure level ramp, south of the domestic terminal

LAX

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)

Meeting Point
Meet in front of Terminal 6, departures level

PDX

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
6:00 AM to 8:00 AM (PDT)

Meeting Point
Meet in front of Columbia Sportswear, pre-security

SAN

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
8:00 AM to 11:00 AM (PDT)

Meeting Point
Meet in the employee parking lot

SEA

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (PDT)

Meeting Point
Meet at Angle Lake Park 

Recurrent Training 2022

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The 2022 Recurrent Training (RT) program is underway at all training locations.  Read on for information about preflight oral evaluations and acceptable deviations to emergency evacuations commands. For those who are attending RT in Seattle, be aware that the training facility has moved this year.  Check the RT website for information about the new location, directions, and parking. Safety measures such as continued social distancing and HEPA filtration systems in RT classrooms will be in place as a result of AFA advocacy.  These measures should be in place as of January 12. 

Human Rights Committee Meeting Recap – 4th Quarter 2021 (Rescheduled)

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Our AFA Human Rights Committee Chairpersons met on Tuesday, January 11 to discuss their ongoing program of work to advance human rights within our workplace and community. The Committee also met with management to receive updates on what progress has been made on concerns that had been previously brought forward and address new concerns that have been brought forward.  The meeting with management was originally scheduled to be held on December 6 but was cancelled at the last minute due to inflight management changes that took place at around the same time. If you have ideas, thoughts, or feedback for the committee, your Local Human Rights Committee Chairperson would love to hear from you!

Onboard Service Reductions

Our AFA Representatives have been successful in getting management to agree to additional onboard service reductions in light of the current spike of COVID-19 cases nationwide. Any flight currently scheduled for more than one beverage service will be reduced to only one service regardless of the length of the flight.  Additional reductions include changes to the food pre-order system based depending on the length of the flight.  Changes take effect today and are scheduled to be in place through January 31, 2022. As always, please continue to report any safety-related issues with onboard service using a Flight Attendant Irregularity Report (FAIR) in ReportIt!  Please report any catering issues using the catering feedback function in Block2Block.  Management needs to hear about the challenges we’re facing!

January 2022 MEC Meeting Recap

Our AFA Alaska Master Executive Council (MEC) met this week from Tuesday, January 4 through Thursday, January 6 to conduct their ongoing work to represent our Flight Attendants. As part of the meeting, the MEC met with members of inflight, labor relations, and executive management to discuss issues and concerns that are facing our work group and need to be addressed. The last two days of the meeting were spent interviewing candidates for the three Negotiating Committee Member positions.  The MEC selected several candidates to advance to the final interviews to be held on Wednesday, January 26.

December 2021 Pacific Northwest Snowstorm

The snowfall that occurred over the last several days in the Pacific Northwest has caused operational havoc throughout the Alaska Airlines system. Many Flight Attendants are being impacted by cancelled flights, reassignments, and other scheduling issues. Your contract is one of the best resources to help answer questions about pre-cancellations, reassignments, duty times, and rest. The AFA Scheduling Committee has also put together an updated quick reference guide with some key contractual information. If your flying has been impacted by the snowstorm and you have contractual questions or concerns, please open a support ticket using the AFA Alaska Support Center. AFA Representatives are working to resolve issues as expeditiously as possible.

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