Hotel Shopping- This has been a huge task for our hotel committee and our hotel committee chair, Michelle Harllee. We want to thank them for their efforts in this difficult task. We also recognize our partners at ALPA for their support. Please remember to submit your hotel reports in the My Crew Care app. This is how we can address issues. The company says no report, no issues.
MEC Summit- Your MEC is hosting a summit this week in DC. All MEC chairs will meet with all MEC members, including your local president. They will provide reports, discuss the committee's needs, and, as a group, brainstorm and work collaboratively to find solutions and new ways to be most effective in our union and for you as members. We are excited to do this and ready for what comes after this meeting.
Scheduling Committee- As most of you know, the MEC scheduling chair positions remain vacant. This does not mean that scheduling is going uncovered. In fact, we are holding a training session this week with new and current members. We will discuss exciting changes to the committee and new responsibilities for each base member. This will ensure that we have more base oversight and input from each base. We hope this will make our scheduling committee more effective.
Negotiations- As stated in our previous Eline, we will be back talking with the company this week, 11/13. We hope to see further progress. Keep up the good work of supporting one another by wearing the red lanyard and your red pin.
Executive Labor Meeting- Quarterly, we meet with the executive team of PSA. This includes Dion Flannery, the CEO, and COO Chris McCartney. Your MECP, MECVP, and Grievance Chair attended. During the meeting, we received an update on PSA's business and the executive team's perspective. Your MECP had the opportunity to present several challenges and issues that our flight attendants deserve answers to. We discussed: scheduling issues, the company’s timeliness with grievance responses, how management's decisions are actively affecting our Flight Attendants, and more! We feel this meeting was productive and were so happy to have A’leigha Turner, your new MECVP, join us at the table.
EAP- Our EAP team is working hard. There have been some leadership changes. Cher Oravec, our MEC chair, has stepped down. We are so incredibly grateful for all the work that Cher has done and the countless hours of support during some of our toughest times. She will be deeply missed. We wish her the very best as she moves forward.
Your MEC jumped into action today to institute an interim MEC Chair. The MEC voted to name Dallas Gurley as interim MEC Chair. Dallas has already been serving as a member of EAP, and we are confident she will keep things running seamlessly. We are so incredibly grateful that Dallas answered this call to leadership right on the spot. This shows her commitment to EAP and to the Flight Attendant group.
