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The implication from AQ and HMSA letters are that COBRA will cease when AQ ceases ALL operations. So when cargo and contract services are sold this would trigger this. Will AFA be putting out a notice that this is the case so that this is very clear to all members? If this is not true, then clarification is needed.
As covered in the membership meetings that were held, COBRA coverage ceases on the earlier of eighteen months or when there ceases to be a health insurance plan. In the current situation, the latter is likely to occur first when the cargo operation and the contract services division are sold and the remaining company units are dissolved or shut down. According to HMSA, COBRA coverage will cease on the last day of the month in which the company ceases all operations. For example, if the last Aloha operation ceases to exist on May 5th, your COBRA coverage, if you have elected it and paid the premiums will end on May 31st. Likewise, if the company's operation ceased to exist on May 29th, your COBRA coverage would still end on May 31st.
It is, unfortunately, not possible to state with any certainty exactly how long COBRA coverage will be available.
Can you please provide us the latest on the alpa and iam negotiations on filling vacacies in cargo and contract servcies? If it is true that all funding shuts down on 4/7 from GMAC without an agreement from alpa, then what? If the quote from the advertiser was true from AFA.....that we had members who would fly on these "mercy flights" without pay, then how did you intend to follow up on this?
The ALPA and IAM units do not brief AFA on their respective negotiations. AFA is monitoring them to the extent possible to ensure that any issues that might potentially spill over to or otherwise apply to the Aloha Flight Attendants.
GMAC is, as of Tuesday, April 8th, continuing to fund the operation.
While we could not identify a quote in the Advertiser, we did identify the referenced cite in the Star Bulletin. It was not a quote but rather a poor summation of what actually transpired in the phone interview. AFA stated that IF (emphasis on "if") it was possible to operate such flights that of course the flight attendants would want to help. The fact of the matter is it was well known that operating such flights was not possible for a host of legal reasons. Therefore there was no plan to "follow up" on this.
Were you able to find out when HR will send the official notices to long term care UNUM and send the employee the official letter of no coverage so we can send in our own payments for long term care? This is what UNUM told me on the phone that they need. Also is there any more info if we will be offered cobra?
If you would like to continue in the Long Term Care insurance you will need to contact Joey Burgess at 836-7402 to receive a continuation of coverage form. Cobra is also being offered to employees.
Is AFA doing a thorough investigation of the salaries and bonuses paid to Banmiller and the SR VPs and will this be posted? Is this public information? Are at liberty to say what kinds of questions the creditors committee will be asking at its next meeting?
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors represents the largest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy. AFA is one of those creditors and as such has a seat on the committee. This committee has at their disposal a host of highly qualified attorneys and advisors to assist them with sifting through and analyzing all the company details and data that are available to them. The activities of the committee are, however, confidential. But you may rest assured that the Committee and AFA's representatives on the committee are going to leave no stone unturned in their examination of the company's financials to make sure that the creditors, and especially the Aloha flight attendants, are not denied any money they are due because of unscrupulous management pay-outs or other activities.
IAM unions say they have language that offers severance pay. Do we?
Our contract calls for furlough pay, which would be the same thing. We have filed a grievance to enforce our contract although most likely this will become part of AFA's group claim.
Regarding the COBRA insurance, are we to pay the premiums on a monthly basis, or two months in advance? Also, once Aloha Airlines sells the Cargo/Contract division, does that mean our health insurance ceases immediately?
Payments will be monthly. According to HMSA, COBRA coverage will cease on the last day of the month in which the company ceases all operations.
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