Representing the Flight Attendants of Alaska + Hawaiian
The next quarterly reserve meeting with Alaska Scheduling will be on June 15th. If you have issues or agenda items that you would like discussed, please forward them to your local reserve chairperson.
ANC: Matt Cook, matt.cook@afaalaska.org
SEA: Antoine Rouse, antoine.rouse@afaalaska.org
PDX: Bethany Gilbo, bethany.gilbo@gmail.com
LAX: Paige Harmon, paigeharmon14@yahoo.com
SAN: Kristen Yermakov, sanfa.reserve@gmail.com
Thanks!
AFA has been made aware of a technical glitch that is creating issues accessing JCA on computers running the Windows 10 operating system. If you are using a computer running Windows 10, only Internet Explorer will currently allow access to JCA—no other browsers will allow access to the system due to the glitch.
The browser icon on the desktop (the blue “E”) is the Windows Edge browser, one of the browsers that is not working. Use the search field found in the menu bar or start menu to search for and open Internet Explorer.
Alaska Airlines IT has been advised of the issue and is working to restore normal access. There is currently no ETA on a fix to the system.
Access to JCA using Apple operating systems (including the IMD) is unaffected.
In Solidarity,
Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Linda Christou, Lisa Pinkston, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Tim Green and Brice McGee
Click the link below to view the minutes from the March 9th Quarterly Reserve Meeting with Scheduling Management.
Management launched an online trade board as an interim solution to facilitate reserve trading as Jeppesen Crew Access (JCA) does not support reserve trading at this time. The trade board can be accessed from the Inflight website > Scheduling & Bidding > Reserve Trading Board. Instructions for use of the reserve trade board were posted earlier today by management in informational bulletin #2017-0030 (Reserve Trading Board).
Though the interim reserve trade board will help reserve Flight Attendants to exercise their contractual right to trade, it does not solve the greater issue of a fully automated reserve trading system as required by the contract (section 11.H.7). AFA will continue to take necessary steps through the grievance process to compel management to comply with this requirement and the remainder of our contract.
If you have questions about the reserve trade board, please contact your Local Reserve Committee. Contact information can be found on the Reserve Committee page of the AFA Alaska website.
In Solidarity,
Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Linda Christou, Lisa Pinkston, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Tim Green, Brice McGee and MEC Reserve Committee Chairperson Jarod McNeill
The Master Executive Council (MEC) is very frustrated that the cutover from Jeppesen Maestro/eMaestro to Jeppesen Crew Access (JCA) has not been very kind to Reserves. Although self-assignment has finally been implemented after a long delay (the original estimate was by the end of 2nd quarter 2016), there are numerous other reserve-specific contractual violations due to JCA. For the life of a Reserve, it has been one step forward and at least two steps back.
AFA has recently filed the following Reserve-specific contractual grievances on your behalf:
Management has been developing an interim reserve trade board to provide a platform for posting and trading reserve blocks/days until the function can be programmed in JCA. The MEC has been pushing management to get the interim trade board up and running as soon as possible. Based on recent progress, we are hopeful it will be available for use sometime this coming week.
Management has provided a disturbing estimate to AFA regarding implementation of the permanent reserve trade board. Right now management is saying April or so, which is completely unacceptable of course.
In slightly better news, management has informed the MEC that the ability to post and trade Airport Standby (APSB) may be functional by next week.
The MEC has received feedback that there may be confusion about whether or not the scheduling notifications are active for Reserves. They definitely are. That means if you accept the scheduling notification, Crew Scheduling has officially notified you of the scheduling event (e.g. reserve assignment, change to report time, et cetera). If you wish to decline the scheduling notification, you must click the little “X” in the corner of the notification window; then Crew Scheduling will contact you using the traditional methods (e.g. calling your number(s) on file, et cetera).
AFA will continue to advocate on behalf of the Reserves and push management to make the situation right as soon as possible. If the parties cannot reach an acceptable resolution to these violations, AFA is fully prepared to go to arbitration if necessary in order to defend our contract.
In Solidarity,
Your MEC – Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Palmer, Linda Christou, Lisa Pinkston, Laura Masserant, Cathy Gwynn, Tim Green, Brice McGee; MEC Reserve Committee Chairperson Jarod McNeill; MEC Scheduling Committee Chairperson Jake Jones; and MEC Grievance Committee Chairperson Stephanie Adams
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