How to email your local
July 29, 2008
CWA locals
Need to email your local? Here are the email contacts for each CWA local that represents US Airways Passenger service. Just find your location or State. If you are in a US Airways West city, please contact the IBT at ibtad@attglobal.net to find out how to contact your IBT local.
District 1- Local 1171
represents BOS,ALB,BDL,BTV,BUF,
EWR,LGA,MHT,PVD,ROC,SYR,JFK
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District 2 -Local 2252
represents 2252 DCA,BWI,IAD,ORF,RIC
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District 3-Local 3640 represents INT RES
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Local 3641
represents All ATO's in NC, SC, GA, LA
TN, KY, AL, MS
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Local 3140
represents All ATO's in Florida and SJU
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District 4 - Local 4404
represents CLE,CMH,DAY.DTW,IND,
ORD,MCI,STL
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District 13- Local 13302 represents PIT
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Local 13301 represents PHL, ABE, AVP, MDT
~CWA Member Info~
Mandatory overtime rules being abused by the company systemwide in the Airports!
If you have not been given 1 hour written or electronic notice and the reason and duration of the mandatory overtime, then the company is in violation of the Contract -File a grievance if this happens to you! If you are not in front of a computer for the electronic pop up regarding overtime, how are you to know you have been mandatoried? YOU DO NOT have to find a manager before the end of your shift to "find out" if they need you to stay., the contract is very clear, they are to notify YOU. It is the RESPONSIBILITY of local managers to MANAGE the coverage, not ours. The company has been told many times the staffing is not adequate even when we had the SABRE system, they are finding out the hard way. See pages 34 and 40 in your contract to review the Mandatory overtime rule. For ATO's Article 6 Item U. and for RES Article 7, Item L.
BREAKS!
Take your breaks as scheduled. It is your right to take them per the contract. Do not let the local managers intimidate you nor make you feel guilty for leaving your co-workers to handle the lines when you need a break. Stand up for your rights.
A note about Training and Testing.
DO NOT DO TRAINING or TESTING ON YOUR OWN TIME or AT HOME! The company is responsibe for allowing enough time for training and testing while on the job!
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Training on your days off
The CWA locals are getting calls from members that are being forced to attend training on their days off. If you are not given a choice of days to go to training, please let your local rep know (see Article 29-Training, Travel Pay and Meal Per Diem on page 108 of your contract). If you volunteer to train on your days off or those are the only days left to sign up after bidding, you must be given two days off that same work week. Keep in mind, we do not get overtime during training.
GREAT SEARCH TOOL TO HELP YOU FIND WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING IN THE CWA CONTRACT PDF FILE LINK
A helpful search tool you can use if you are accessing the link to our Contract online is the binocular feature. Just click on the cwa contract pdf file link to left, it may take a minute to load, then on the binocular icon, a search tool will open up to the right. Type in a keyword, such as mandatory overtime or swap and it will link you to any page that has those words on it. You also may want to save the Contract pdf file to your desktop to use when you are not online. Hope this helps you navigate our CWA/IBT contract!
GRIEVANCES-ARTICLE 25
Please be sure to review Article 25 and the time limits for each step to keep a grievance in the pipeline and active. We also have a link to the grievance form to the left, which you can print out and use. If you do not have a steward available and need to file a grievance in a timely manner, please contact your local for assistance, there is a link to their emails below. We do not want people to miss a time limit to file a grievance or appeal it to the next step. It is the employee/grievant's responsibility to advance the grievance to the next step once they get the oral reply or written response at each level. Please keep your steward and or local in the loop in case the company fails to copy the steward or local in on their response to your grievance. Always remember to list a REMEDY on your grievance, which is what you would like if you win the grievance, for example, to be allowed to work the overtime you were bypassed for.
PAYROLL ISSUE
There have been some problems with members being paid the incorrect amount when returning from furlough. Please check with your local rep when you are recalled to be sure you have been advised correctly regarding your rate of pay and your pay seniority. See the link to your local below if you do not have a steward in your city.
