12.08.08

InfoReps,

APFA NEWS

The APFA Executive Committee (EC) held its quarterly meeting last week on December 2-3 at APFA Headquarters. The official documents from that meeting will be posted on the www.apfa.org website once they are processed. Agendas, Official Minutes and Resolutions from past EC meetings and Board of Directors Conventions can be found on www.apfa.org. Click ëEventsí in the left menu on the main page. You must log-in to view.

Arbitration hearings for the Presidential Grievance filed on the 757 Crew Rest were held last week in Dallas. APFA and the company met with the Arbitrator for two full days as they presented their respective arguments. The parties have agreed to meet again with the Arbitrator on January 13-14 in Washington. Once the hearings are complete and the Arbitratorís decision is handed down, we will get that information to you.

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NEGOTIATIONS

The scheduling subcommittees met on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Discussions continued on Article 10-Reserve. The APFA scheduling subcommittee is working diligently to address the negative impact that reserve has on so many Flight Attendants. Article 10-Reserve still has much work to be done. The company has notified the APFA scheduling subcommittee that they are prepared to begin discussing Article 7-Hours of Service, Article 8-Minimum Pay and Credit and Article 9-Scheduling, during next week’s meetings.

Other APFA/AA Negotiating Committees met on Thursday. APFA presented the company with our proposal for Article 30-General and Article 31-Union Security. APFA also presented a counter proposal on Article 27-Bereavement/Emergency/Personal Leave.

American’s negotiating committee presented counter proposals on Article 20-Medical Appeals and Arbitration, Article 21-Hotels and Transportation, Article 24-Copies of Agreement, and Article 34-Purser.

Negotiations will resume on Tuesday, December 9th.

DID YOU KNOW?

Premium Pay (incentive) was introduced in Article 3A of the 1960 Collective Bargaining Agreement. It only applied to Stewardesses flying the four engine turbo-prop or four engine turbo-jet equipment. It paid $2.50/hour for the turbo-prop and $5.00/hour for the turbo-jet and it only paid out if the Stewardess flew more than 75 actual hours; credit time was not included.

Today, our negotiated incentive rates are in Article 3.B. / Appendix I.3.B. – Compensation. They apply to all hours flown above 70, on all equipment. Years of service and pay step increases determine the amount of incentive pay.