because they have a contract silly!

No Crew Rest Grievance NWAAFA
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.nwaafa.org/docs/06.18.10_NonCrewBu...

check out the YES WAY AFA page on FB

More Delta employees soon will have the opportunity to decide on union representation after the Association of Flight Attendants and the International Association of Machinists filed applications with the National Mediation Board Thursday to resolve representation among Delta's flight attendants and "fleet service" and "passenger service" employees. The fleet service and passenger service employees work in Airport Customer Service, Delta Cargo and Reservation Sales.

The filings all came on Thursday, the day when new voting rules put in place by the NMB went into effect.

"This is one of the biggest decisions of your career because it can change our unique culture and because it is extremely difficult to return to non-union status," Joanne Smith, s.v.p., In-Flight Service, told flight attendants in a memo Thursday. "So, the best decision you can make is an educated one."

(thank you joanne smith, i think they will this time with out your help)

The NMB must take several steps before the election can be held. It must determine "single carrier status" for each group and must determine whether the pre-merger Delta and pre-merger Northwest groups are comparably sized. If the NMB makes those determinations, it will ask Delta to submit a list of potential eligible voters.

The elections will be under the new voting rules.

"Under the new voting rules, the election results will be based on the 'majority of people voting,'" Gil West, s.v.p.-ACS, and Neel Shah, v.p.-Delta Cargo, told employees in a joint memo Thursday. "This means that under the new rules if you do not want IAM representation, you will have to vote 'NO.'"

Despite Thursday's filings for other work groups, the IAM has not yet filed to resolve representation for nearly 700 Delta TechOps stores employees.

"I am truly disappointed," Tony Charaf, president-Delta TechOps, told Stores employees. "Hopefully the IAM will be filing soon to resolve representation for you."

No timetable for the elections has been determined.

"We will have much more to say about the new voting process over the next several weeks," Gil and Neel told employees. "The important point is that if you want to have your voice heard, whatever your view, you must vote. Please don't let others decide your future."

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[1sivic]

You obviously have not ridden jumpseat in a thunderstorm observing the professionals we have on the flight deck. I have and it was like watching a well-oiled machine. You think it's easy strap yourself in and do it yourself. The F/A crew rest is not three abreast but two abreast. We are not flying the ScAIRBUS or the Whale to your precious destinations because we are flying where the loads dictate. Lastly, go to the Credit Union take out a loan and buy a digital camera instead of using crayons.

[neilbrian77]

@1sivic whoa we got a you tube junkie, the crayons comment was awesome. thanks.

[atlguy1976]

All I can say is -- look at the track record. Look at the side-by-side comparison. What, really WHAT, has AFA provided that Delta has not? Currently, Delta F/A's make more money and have more flexibility, and they don't have to pay dues for it.

[neilbrian77]

@atlguy1976 FMLA. Your welcome.

[nosnayack]

...keep my measly pension (discontinued in 97) and flight benefits and retire early. And did. Later

I got this plaque. It was made to stand up on a surface. Three dimensional. Thanking me for my 30

years. I keep it behind a door that I never close. O and incidentally I came to find my station manager....got a promotion. I am sorry I took so much room. I guess I am venting. I wish

you the best in getting your contract. It's not all one big family. Hasn't been for a long time!

[nosnayack]

..him I cannot work in such a dysfunctional environment. He took me out due to stress. And

A week later I did FMLA. I found I could retire early. At least I could k

[nosnayack]

..were beginning to wonder if the would cut Sky Club staffing. We noticed that our supervisors

were no longer required to wear uniforms, like NW had done for years. But it was depressing to

hear co-workers saying it was just a matter of time. I thought then why not do yourself a favor

and acknowledge it is out of your hands. There was a lot off people behind other peoples

back...to mngmt. I was finally put on probation. I left, went to my car and wept, 30 years.

I went to my doctor and told..

[nosnayack]

...had done what he had asked. I couldn't do it. Weeks later my Team leader calls me at home on my Friday night at 8PM. He want me to open for him the next morning at 4am. I said I really would like to come through but I had plans. ANd he went on to talk about Holidays and working together.

I repeated myself. It was truly an exercise in staying cool and repeating myself over and over.

The write ups continued. I lost faith. I loved my job. I got endless compliments from passengers.

Other agent...

[nosnayack]

...but that we would not talk of this again. He told me I could go to hiss boss, "but he would advise me not to."Incidentally conference call took place in my station leaders office and she participated.

After he hung up I looked at my station manager and asked if she didn't hear what he said as a veiled threat. Her reply was, "you just don't know...the things he asks me to do." I wanted to say

right then in regards to him I had seen enough. But what I was most curious about was whether

she...

[nosnayack]

..talking to my Team Leader- he again not looking not looking at me but reading the internet.

An very big man on the other side of the room had blown his nose and my Team Leader all wide

eyed looked up at me and asked, "If I had just farted." I took it to HR . They backed mngmnt. started getting write-up from supervisors down stairs. Lies and half lies. Overdone. Looked

like an attempt to assassinate my very character. I then went to the upper division head. Who

said it would stop...

[nosnayack]

...SFO management. In the meantime the whole thing with Northwest was taking place. Their

lounge was at International. They only worked the from desk. All food and drinks were serif served.

A janitorial service was contracted to bus tables, do dishes and replenish food and drinks.

on the day that I was kept late I did tell the FTP supervisor of other situation. One that my team leader doesn't look at me when i am speaking or when speaking to me. I told him of a situation

where I was talking..

[nosnayack]

..I left. I went down to the supervisor at FTO to tell him what happened. He said I would get paid

and my team leader was wrong. I had a weekend to get over it. But on Monday I am called

into another supervisors office who tell me I should know That I would get paid, that he could not force me to stay and that I should finish any work I started. I had took that problem on 5 minutes

before I was to get off. I was written up foe insubordination. I took it to HR and they unbelievably

backed up ..

[nosnayack]

He said I should learn how to do this and it was my job to stay until it was done. He struggled.

I picked the phone to call the agent help line. Immediately he comes and stand next to me. Then

starts making comments about what I was saying. English was not his first language and his e-mails were full of misspelling and sentence that were hard to understand. But here he was

talking in my ear criticizing everything I said. I had had it. I told him to ,["please stop or I am leaving."

He didn't so..

[nosnayack]

..know that. He once kept me after work to finish a deal that I had just started. Meantime he is

standing there looking at me. He wasn't doing anything- it was his job to take over as he was working as an agent that day. So he just looks at me. I looking in the computer. I couldn't find the answer to this complicated ticketing reissue. He finally grabs the paperwork from me, says nothing

and proceeds to work the reissue. But he cannot do it. I asked him if I was getting overtime

and he said "no"