People Who Live In Glass Houses.......

Should Change Their Clothes in the Basement!



With the release of the now infamous "Delta Files", it has appeared to have made Patricia Friend, International President of AFA-CWA a little bit angry. President Friend, who lives in that great big glass house in Washington DC, was not a little angry but a lot angry!

After the Delta information was downloaded here, I invited Ms. Friend to visit this blog "Delta Contract Now, On-Line"(Sent my e-mail at 10:20am PST). Within 18 minutes, Ms. Friend immediately went into overdrive and fired off an e-mail (Sent her e-mail 1:38pm EST) to her lowly minions in an attempt to uncover who is this flight attendant and he needs to correct the "misleading and deceptive communications". Delta does not have a contract. NWA MEC V-President Alberto Garcia was the first to respond to his mistress' demand, "Michael Lehr is a SFO flight attendant" he reported back.


Her Majesty Friend continued that she was all for dissent, free speech "or whatever you want to call it", however, she was not in favor of such "misleading and deceptive communications". Of course, I immediately had my sitemeter tracker turned on and had 5 or 6 "Cwa-Sectreas Washington, District of" computer visits on this site for anywhere from 4-29 minutes in length. Without a doubt, AFA-CWA was indeed downloading all the Delta files!! Why else would someone be on this small weblog for such a lengthy period?? I guess this site may have had something they wanted.


AFA Legal Counsel went to work right away. (See comment by "David" Feb 5, 2008 at 10:47 am PST on this site-exactly when a CWA Sectreas computer was tracked) I suspect, like others, this is none other than AFA Legal Counsel David Borer. It is quite apparent, the Delta information divulged on this weblog was incredibly important to AFA-CWA to warrant such immediate high-level attention!


AFA Legal worked all day reading the file then composing a "researched" Merger Q & A Part 1, communication which they released just after midnite that evening. You all have probably received a copy, so I will only post important highlights (If you would like a copy let me know and I will forward to you)

5 February 2008

The following questions
and answers regarding mergers have been researched by AFA-CWA attorneys. As
additional information is gathered, it will be reported in hotline messages, on
union bulletin boards and on Local and MEC Websites. Archived Q&As will be
listed on the "Email Communications" page of our website, nwaafa.org.

Gathered is correct. Gathered by AFA from this weblog!

GREAT RESEARCH, CHECK OUT ANSWER TO QUESTION 5........

Delta does not have it better overall than we do. In fact, many of DL's work
rules are much worse than ours. Things that we take for granted are unheard of
at Delta, like having access to the seniority list to guard against seniority
violations. And, things that we have fought for at Northwest are not part of the
"policy manual" at Delta- they have no 4:15 minimum duty day......

WRONG!

Compensation, Section 6, Page 67 It's called Duty Period Averaging and is actually 30 minutes greater than the current 4:15 minimum duty day at Northwest!!


So much for the research from AFA legal counsel!


Moral of the story: Before accusing others of "deceptive and misleading communications" Ms. Friend, maybe you should ensure your own laundry is clean and by the way, please be sure to change your clothes in the basement!


UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

Just received the following e-mail, from Pat Friend, 8 February 2008, 3:58 CST
Ms. Friend agrees the information "researched" by AFA lawyers is erroneous. Bunch of geniuses in that office!

Mr. Lehr,You are absolutely correct that the statement concerning minimum duty
day is misleading. In fact the DL management policy manual as it applies to
flight attendants makes reference to a 4:45 average duty day. I have asked your
MEC Office in MSP to issue a correction.Pat Friend

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