STATEMENT OF QUESTION:

Should contributions to the Mobilization Fund be reduced to zero for fiscal year 2009-2010?

SOURCE AND DATE SUBMITTED: AFA-CWA Finance Committee, January 23, 2009

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

In order to balance the AFA-CWA Proposed 2009-2010 Annual Budget, many budgets were reduced. The philosophy used was to ensure many budgets suffered some reduction so that no one specific budget would be critically affected.

PROPOSED RESOLUTION:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Article XI.A.3 be amended to include the following parenthetical sentence at the end of the paragraph:

3. $1.00 per member per month from all active members and service charge payers' dues on any airline shall be allocated to sustain a Mobilization Fund to promote and achieve the goal outlined in Article I.C. Such Mobilization Fund shall be over and above the regular Organizing Departments annual budget. Up to 90% of the Mobilization Fund can be reallocated to support first contract negotiations for newly organized carriers with more than 10,000 flight attendants. (For fiscal year 2009-2010, contributions to the Mobilization Fund will be reduced to zero.)