Reserve Committee
Reserves
Chair:
Karen Jay kjay@nwaafa.org
Vice Chair: Rebecca Collier rcollier@nwaafa.org
Reserve Quick Reference Guides
- Contract Quick Reference Guide
- Reserve Trip Quick Reference Guide
- FA CENTRY Manual
- Please send a narrative report to your LEC officers/Local Reserve Committee Chair and the MEC Reserve Committee Chair at ;
- If possible at the time of pattern assignment, please print the Reserve Availablility/Credit Hours list from the Reserve menu in ACCESS and submit that as evidence – once that list is gone, we cannot recover it;
- If in doubt about the legality of a RSV pattern assignment, ask for a “review of crew orders.”
Latest Reserve News
Joint AFA & NWA Scheduling Survey
21 October 2008
A joint Flight Attendant Scheduling Survey was developed through Union and Company cooperation. This joint initiative demonstrates the correct way to survey unionized flight attendants, by working with their certified bargaining agent. We would like to extend our appreciation to all AFA Scheduling and Reserve Committee volunteers, as well as the Company representatives who worked diligently on the survey.
There have been many changes to the flight attendant profession at NWA, and AFA and the Company recognize that these changes have significantly affected your work schedules. To get a better picture of your scheduling preferences in this new environment, we have worked together to produce a survey designed to solicit your input in the areas of pattern construction and bidding of schedules. It is our hope that all flight attendants will participate, thus giving us the most accurate data base from which to make future pattern construction and computer bidding decisions.
Although there are contractual, federal, operational and economic requirements to be considered with the construction of patterns and PBS bidding, where and when there is flexibility, we want to be sure that your true priorities are taken into account. You’ll see that many questions will require you to prioritize your preferences. This technique is required since in the pattern construction world it is sometimes true that ‘improving’ one pattern characteristic can negatively impact a second pattern characteristic. We also recognize that what is a priority at one base on a particular aircraft type, may not be a priority at another. We are therefore exploring whether there is a reasonable way (both technically and practically) to apply different pattern characteristics to different bases.
Only one survey will be allowed per flight attendant; your last entry will be the one that counts. Both AFA and the company will have access to the raw data produced from the survey. The MEC Scheduling Committee will work with the Company toward analyzing your input to present viable changes to pattern construction whenever possible. The survey will remain open on ATLAS under “Hotlinks” until November 15, 2008.
Posted by jrook on 10/21 at 06:01 PMReserve SILO Processing Implemented
Last week the Company implemented several new contract items, including the SILO language for Reserve pattern assignment (Section 7.D.2.). It has since been reported that the implementation of SILO is creating serious problems for some RSV flight attendants.
Reserves must be watchful of contractual violations associated with SILO processing and should contact Scheduling and Union officers to record and track violations.
Your Reserve Committee and LEC officers need information about what impact SILO is having so we may act as quickly as possible to solve these problems with Scheduling and/or begin the grievance process. Please familiarize yourself with Section 7.D.2. so you are better able to determine the effect SILO is having on your RSV line.
A new Reserve Incident Reporting form is being developed and will be available soon on the Reserve Committee page of our website, nwaafa.org. Until the interactive form is online:
Your participation in providing us with this information is critical to improving SILO processing for Reserves.