This is Eric Edwards with the MEC hotline
on Thursday, January 2. Tonight’s topics:
1. The TA
2. Caremark
3. Local Council Officer Elections
The TA
In last week’s hotline I provided a broad,
bullet-point outline of what the mediator’s proposal contains regarding
the PReSS issues. This week I will do the same with some of the non-PReSS
items. While the contractual language is still being written on some sections,
the MEC will be sending out a written comparison of Contract 95 and the
current TA, highlighting some of the more significant changes. This comparison
has been printed and should arrive in your mailbox next week and will
be available on the Negotiating Committee page of the MEC website tomorrow.
Section 4 – Minimum Pay Guarantee
* Minimum pay guarantee is 75 hours for
lineholders, 77 hours for reserves.
* Trip Rig is 1 for 3.75
* Training pay for is 3:00 pay and credit for recurrent ground school
and 4:17 pay and credit per session for simulator training.
Section 5 – Compensation for Expenses,
Hotels and Transportation
* Per Diem increases 10 cents per hour
each year of the contract.
Section 7 – Vacations
* When vacation is involuntarily cancelled,
pilot has option to take 50 percent pay and carryover vacation to following
calendar year (which is golden) or take 150 percent pay with no carryover
of the canceled vacation.
* Includes process to allow pilots to voluntarily sell vacation back at
100 percent pay.
Section 12 – Hours of Service
* No pay cap – get paid for what you fly.
* Current bank system is eliminated; any credit over 99:00 will be applied
to subsequent bid period’s line construction.
* Flexes: allows five occurrences per position (seat and equipment) of
up to three hours each and one occurrence of up to four hours. No balancing
is required.
* Lineholders guaranteed a minimum of 12 days off in a 30-day months and
13 days off in a 31-day month. Reserves guaranteed 12 days off per month:
10 that are golden and two that are movable.
* Scheduled duty limit extension for deadheading allowed up to one hour,
actual duty limit extension for deadheading allowed up to four hours.
* Minimum rest at RONs is 9:30 for day trips, 10:30 for night trips.
Section 14 – Sick Leave
* Sick bank is capped at 500 hours.
* Sick leave is accrued at a rate of 48 hours annually.
* Sick bank pays for trips misses upon occurrence.
Section 25 – Scheduling
* Bid periods are based on calendar months.
* Scheduling Committee granted full-time access to crew scheduler version
of Maestro.
* Calendar day is defined as being from 0231 to 0230, with a one-hour
extension for irregular operations.
* Reserves have a 1:30 call-out to the airport parking lot.
* Provision for long-call reserves of 12 hours to be a minimum of 0 to
15 percent of lines, depending on fleet size.
* Allows reserves to self-assign trips prior to departure that fit within
the reserve pilot’s days of availability bucket and shift.
* Reserve tagging may occur with limitations.
* Provides for electronic pilot-to-pilot trip trade board and allows pilots
to trade trips down to a minimum of 40 hours in a bid period. Pilots will
be allowed to split pairings for pilot-to-pilot trades.
Section 28 – Retirement
Letter of Agreement 14 that provides for
a $920 retirement supplement has been eliminated.
Caremark
The MEC and R & I Committee have received
calls already regarding the new Caremark prescription program. We are
investigating a reduction in benefits over the exclusion of an 80/20 reimbursement
for pharmacy prescriptions. ALPA was able to solve a similar problem with
America West two to three years ago, so we will again request a resolution
through employee benefits directly. We should have an update by the January
16th hotline.
Local Council Officer Elections
By now all members in good standing should
have received balloting instructions for the Local Council officer elections.
Voting is underway and can be done by phone at 1-888-647-1787 or via the
Internet at https://www.ballotpoint.com/alpa. You will need your ALPA
member number and password to vote. If you do not know your password or
did not receive balloting instructions, contact ALPA Membership Services
by calling 1- 888-359-2572 and selecting option “3.” Balloting
will close at 8 a.m. Phoenix time on January 10.
That’s all for tonight; the next regular
hotline update will be on Thursday, January 9. Thanks for listening.
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