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        LAX and SAN Meeting October 8th

        September 7, 2015 21:51

        Save The Date October 8th
        LAX and SAN flight attendant bases will have a joint AFA meeting on October 8th. Please bid for the day off if you plan on attending this event with your LEC officers, committee chairs, and MEC President Jeff Peterson as the guest speaker.

        Time and place TBD (somewhere between the two bases).

        In Solidarity,
        Your LEC

        Sandra Morrow, LEC President • sleemorrow@verizon.net •
        Kelly Johnson, LEC Vice President • laxvice@aol.com •
        Kelese Stallings, LEC Secretary • kelesestallings@yahoo.com •
        David Lehman, LEC Rep • lehmaninla@yahoo.com •

        Filed Under: Council 15 SAN, Council 18 LAX

        LAX LEC Scheduling Chair Tim Green

        June 12, 2015 15:19

        Congratulations to Tim Green, our new LOCAL SCHEDULING CHAIR. He will be the person advocating for our LAX flight attendant schedules and overseeing scheduling issues.

        With our new contract we formed a new MEC Scheduling Committee. Jake Jones was appointed by the MEC as the new MEC Scheduling Chair. Our LEC Scheduling Chair Tim Green will be working with him and other chairs from all other bases.

        We are also excited that LAXFA Sherrijon Gaspard has been selected as AFA’s Pairing Analyst. She took over Jeff Stein’s position earlier this year.

        We want to thank Tim, Jake, and Sherrijon in advance for all of their hard work ahead. Please reach out to either of them with any of your suggestions and concerns. They would love to receive your feedback.

        Tim Green ScheduleLAX@yahoo.com

        Sherrijon Gaspard sggaspard@gmail.com

        Filed Under: Council 18 LAX, Scheduling Committee Tagged With: Chair, Pairing Analyst, Scheduling

        Your Best AFA Resource: Your Local Council

        May 15, 2015 05:00

        Our union is built on a strong foundation that starts in your base at your Local Council.  Within your Local Council, you directly elect the officers who serve you and represent you at all levels of AFA.  Those same officers, along with your appointed committee members and chairs, are also your best point of contact when you need AFA support.

        Whether you need a question answered, information clarified, or have a pressing situation that you need help with, these AFA leaders and representatives stand ready to assist you.  Here are some tips to get help when you need it:

        Have a specific question?  Start with your Local Committees.

        Local Committees are made up of fellow Flight Attendants from your base that specialize in helping you with specific areas of importance.  They are an expert, a resource, and a voice in the work of their committee.  You can contact the committee chair or any member of the committee for help.

        AFA Committees

        Want to know more about what each committee does?  Visit http://afaalaska.org/committees and click on the committee you’d like to know more about!

        Bigger issue?  Your Local Executive Council (LEC) Officers are here to help!

        If you don’t know which committee to contact or you have a concern that is outside the scope of the committees, the place to go for help is one of your LEC Officers.  Your LEC Officers are fellow Flight Attendants from your base who are directly elected to represent you.  When you think, “I need help from the Union,” your next step should be to contact one of your LEC Officers!

        Officer Contacts

        What about the Master Executive Council (MEC)?

        The MEC Officers and Committee Chairs work behind the scenes to address issues that are affecting multiple bases or all Flight Attendants.  As a coordinating group, the MEC takes direction from the LEC Officers or Local Committees.  When you need help, you should contact your directly elected LEC Officers; they will first work to resolve issues locally and then elevate things to the MEC-level for resolution as appropriate.

        If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your Local Council for assistance or clarification.

        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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        Filed Under: Council 15 SAN, Council 18 LAX, Council 19 SEA, Council 30 ANC, Council 39 PDX, Latest News, Local Councils, Master Executive Council (MEC) Tagged With: 2015, contact information, LEC, local council, MEC

        Council 18 Union Meeting Agenda

        April 8, 2015 10:49

        Dear LAX Flight Attendants,

        Lots of news for our base already this year. Here is a letter from LEC President Sandra Morrow with some highlights.

         

        UNION MEETING

        Wow it’s spring already!!! Your LEC is busy preparing for our April Union meeting. We have scheduled our Union meeting for April 16th, at Long Beach’s Recreation Park, 700 Federation Drive, Long Beach, CA from 11:00am -2:00pm. We wanted it to be fun and informative so it will be held at a park with a potluck. AFA will provide the entre and beverages, and we are asking each of you to participate and bring a side dish, appetizer or dessert. Please RSVP to Kelese Stallings at kelesestallings@yahoo.com and let her know if you will be coming and what you are bringing to the potluck. This will help us get a head count for the amount of food we will need. Also don’t forget to bring a beach chair.

        COUNCIL 18 UNION MEETING AGENDA

        Officer reports
        Committee reports
        BOD agenda items
        LAX parking
        Q&A on contract with Kristy Stratton

        I will be attending the Board of Directors (BOD) meeting on April 27th-30th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Constitution and Bylaws require all councils to bring forward the agenda items to their members. You will have the opportunity to review and discuss each agenda item at the union meeting with the LEC officers. Please take a look at the BOD agenda items at the following link http://afa-bod.org

        We are excited to have Kristy Stratton, Negotiating Committee member, attend the meeting and hold a Q&A session on the new contract. Please send your contract questions prior to the meeting to David Lehman at lehmaninla@yahoo.com by April 11th. We want to be able to answer as many questions as possible and having this information in advance will help expedite the process. After the meeting we will post the questions and answers in the minutes on the MEC website (www.afaalaska.org) for those who are not able to attend.

        PARKING IN LAX

        AFA and the Company have been in discussions about the parking at the Westin. We know how unreliable the vans have been and we were happy to see that there was a change starting March 16th. The Westin has told us that there will be 4 vans every hour and they will not be stopping at the Sheraton. The Company has agreed to a trial run for the next month to so see if this works out. We have heard from you that the Westin is your choice of parking as long as the vans are reliable. However, if this does not work out the only other option is the D lot. Please give us your feedback if the new shuttle system at the Westin is working out. Also as a reminder, even though we cannot use Thrifty we are able to use Fox.

         

        LOCAL SCHEDULING CHAIR

        We are looking for a volunteer to become our LAX Scheduling Chair. This person will be the advocate for our LAX schedules. With our new contract we formed a new MEC Scheduling Committee. Congratulations to Jake Jones as he was appointed by the MEC as the new MEC Scheduling Chair. Jake is a Seattle FA and was a member of the Negotiating Committee. He works on behalf of AFA and is an advocate for the FAs. The local Chair for LAXFAs would be working with him and other chairs from all other bases. If you are interested please contact me at sleemorrow@verizon.net by April 30th. Please include a short bio and why you are be interested in the position.

        We are also excited that LAXFA Sherrijon Gaspard has been selected as AFA’s pairing analyst. She will be taking Jeff Stein’s position. Jeff has work in that position for the last 10 years and we thank him for all of his hard work.

        ATTENTION: LAX RESERVES

        UPDATE YOUR CO-TERMINAL PREFERENCE

        Beginning on March 1st, 2015 Crew Scheduling has begun to assign trips out of Co-Terminals in order of your preference and not necessarily in LTFA order. What does this means for you? Prior to this change Crew Scheduling was not required to look at your Co-Terminal Preferences unless there were two Flight Attendants who had the same TFP on the LTFA list. Then there had to be two trips that needed to be assigned (worth the same TFP). The odds of this happening were very rare, and primarily only happened the first couple days of the month. With the new change you no longer have to have the same TFP and have two trips worth the same TFP in order for schedulers to look at your Co-Terminal Preferences.

        For example:  A 2 day AM trip out of BUR

        There are 4 Flight Attendants who are good for 2 AM days. The LTFA will still show those Flight Attendants in TFP order. The Flight Attendant with the lowest TFP will be looked at first. If they designated BUR as a preference, then they will get assigned the trip. If they did not preference BUR then Crew Scheduling will move on to the next lowest TFP and look at their preferences. If no Flight Attendant good for 2 days AM report has BUR listed as a preference, then the trip will go to the Flight Attendant with the lowest TFP on the LTFA list. There may be times where a 2 day BUR trip gets assigned to a 3 day BUR Flight Attendant in order to grant a Co-Terminal Preference but this is at Crew Scheduling discretion.

        Co-Terminal Preferences are generally live. However, preferences are “frozen” between 2pm and 6pm PST the day prior while Scheduling is assigning all the trips in Open Time. The LTFA preferences cannot be changed during this time and the button to submit the changes is deactivated. It is recommended that if you are going to change your Co-Terminal Preference you DO NOT wait until 2pm to make those changes.

        After 6pm PST the day prior the LTFA preferences are “unfrozen”. At this point Crew Scheduling works off of live LTFA preferences. When Crew Scheduling is looking to assign a trip they will take a snapshot of the LTFA list. It is possible that if you update your LTFA preferences right after that snapshot is taken your new preferences will not be honored for that assignment because the assignment is being made based on your (only moments ago) old preferences. In this case AFA will not hold Scheduling at fault for not assigning based on the updated LTFA.

        We hope this is a great step forward for LAX Reserves…we understand how hard Co-Terminal flying can be.

        Looking forward to seeing you all at our April 16th, Union meeting.

        In the meantime fly safe!

         

        In Solidarity,

        Sandra Morrow

        LAX LEC President

         

         

        Contact the entire Local Elected Council (LEC) and visit www.afaalaska.org

        Sandra Morrow, LEC President – sleemorrow@me.com
        Kelly Johnson, LEC Vice President – laxvice@aol.com
        Kelese Stallings, LEC Secretary – kelesestallings@yahoo.com
        David Lehman, Council Representative – lehmaninla@yahoo.com

        Filed Under: Council 18 LAX

        LAX Council 18 News – April 2015

        April 1, 2015 10:35

        Dear LAX Flight Attendants,

        Lots of news for our base already this year. Here is a letter from LEC President Sandra Morrow with some highlights.

        Union Meeting

        Wow it’s spring already!!! Your LEC is busy preparing for our April Union meeting. We have scheduled our Union meeting for April 16, at Long Beach’s Recreation Park, 700 Federation Drive, Long Beach, CA from 11:00am -2:00pm. We wanted it to be fun and informative so it will be held at a park with a potluck. AFA will provide the entre and beverages, and we are asking each of you to participate and bring a side dish, appetizer or dessert. Please RSVP to Kelese Stallings at kelesestallings@yahoo.com and let her know if you will be coming and what you are bringing to the potluck. This will help us get a head count for the amount of food we will need. Also don’t forget to bring a beach chair.

        I will be attending the Board of Directors (BOD) meeting on April 27th-30th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Constitution and Bylaws require all councils to bring forward the agenda items to their members. You will have the opportunity to review and discuss each agenda item at the union meeting with the LEC officers.

        We are excited to have Kristy Stratton, Negotiating Committee member, attend the meeting and hold a Q&A session on the new contract. Please send your contract questions prior to the meeting to David Lehman at lehmaninla@yahoo.com by April 11th. We want to be able to answer as many questions as possible and having this information in advance will help expedite the process. After the meeting we will post the questions and answers in the minutes on the MEC website (afaalaska.org) for those who are not able to attend.

        Parking in LAX

        AFA and the Company have been in discussions about the parking at the Westin. We know how unreliable the vans have been and we were happy to see that there was a change starting March 16th. The Westin has told us that there will be 4 vans every hour and they will not be stopping at the Sheraton. The Company has agreed to a trial run for the next month to so see if this works out. We have heard from you that the Westin is your choice of parking as long as the vans are reliable. However, if this does not work out the only other option is the D lot. Please give us your feedback if the new shuttle system at the Westin is working out. Also as a reminder, even though we cannot use Thrifty we are able to use Fox.

        Local Scheduling Chair

        We are looking for a volunteer to become our LAX Scheduling Chair. This person will be the advocate for our LAX schedules. With our new contract we formed a new MEC Scheduling Committee. Congratulations to Jake Jones as he was appointed by the MEC as the new MEC Scheduling Chair. Jake is a Seattle FA and was a member of the Negotiating Committee. He works on behalf of AFA and is an advocate for the FAs. The local Chair for LAXFAs would be working with him and other chairs from all other bases. If you are interested please contact me at sleemorrow@verizon.net by April 30th. Please include a short bio and why you are be interested in the position.

        We are also excited that LAXFA Sherrijon Gaspard has been selected as AFA’s pairing analyst. She will be taking Jeff Stein’s position. Jeff has work in that position for the last 10 years and we thank him for all of his hard work.

        Attention LAX Reserves: Update Your Co-Terminal Preferences

        Beginning on March 1st, 2015 Crew Scheduling has begun to assign trips out of Co-Terminals in order of your preference and not necessarily in LTFA order. What does this means for you? Prior to this change Crew Scheduling was not required to look at your Co-Terminal Preferences unless there were two Flight Attendants who had the same TFP on the LTFA list. Then there had to be two trips that needed to be assigned (worth the same TFP). The odds of this happening were very rare, and primarily only happened the first couple days of the month. With the new change you no longer have to have the same TFP and have two trips worth the same TFP in order for schedulers to look at your Co-Terminal Preferences.

        For example:  A 2 day AM trip out of BUR

        There are 4 Flight Attendants who are good for 2 AM days. The LTFA will still show those Flight Attendants in TFP order. The Flight Attendant with the lowest TFP will be looked at first. If they designated BUR as a preference, then they will get assigned the trip. If they did not preference BUR then Crew Scheduling will move on to the next lowest TFP and look at their preferences. If no Flight Attendant good for 2 days AM report has BUR listed as a preference, then the trip will go to the Flight Attendant with the lowest TFP on the LTFA list. There may be times where a 2 day BUR trip gets assigned to a 3 day BUR Flight Attendant in order to grant a Co-Terminal Preference but this is at Crew Scheduling discretion.

        Co-Terminal Preferences are generally live. However, preferences are “frozen” between 2pm and 6pm PST the day prior while Scheduling is assigning all the trips in Open Time. The LTFA preferences cannot be changed during this time and the button to submit the changes is deactivated. It is recommended that if you are going to change your Co-Terminal Preference you DO NOT wait until 2pm to make those changes.

        After 6pm PST the day prior the LTFA preferences are “unfrozen”. At this point Crew Scheduling works off of live LTFA preferences. When Crew Scheduling is looking to assign a trip they will take a snapshot of the LTFA list. It is possible that if you update your LTFA preferences right after that snapshot is taken your new preferences will not be honored for that assignment because the assignment is being made based on your (only moments ago) old preferences. In this case AFA will not hold Scheduling at fault for not assigning based on the updated LTFA.

        We hope this is a great step forward for LAX Reserves…we understand how hard Co-Terminal flying can be.

        Looking forward to seeing you all at our April 16th, Union meeting.  In the meantime fly safe!

        In Solidarity,

        Sandra Morrow
        LAX LEC President

        Contact the entire Local Executive Council (LEC) and visit afaalaska.org 

        Sandra Morrow, LEC President – sleemorrow@me.com
        Kelly Johnson, LEC Vice President – laxvice@aol.com
        Kelese Stallings, LEC Secretary – kelesestallings@yahoo.com
        David Lehman, Council Representative – lehmaninla@yahoo.com

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        Filed Under: Council 18 LAX Tagged With: 2015, LAX, Local Council Meeting

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