MAWK90

Does anybody else have an odd amount of ALPA dues withheld form this check?

If I take the dues witheld divided by my gross earnings in the month of April, the amount is 3.57%! Not to mention, if I take my annual ALPA dues withheld thus far divided by my gross annual pay thus far is 2.62%.

This seems very odd and I am wondering if anybody else is seeing this.

HazCan

This is about as clear as mud, but this is what I got from ALPA in an email:

May 2007 Dues Check Off Notice

Some of our members participating in Dues Check Off (DCO) may have noticed that their April 15th DCO deduction was exactly the same amount as their previous DCO deduction on March 15th. That is because due to an administrative error in the DCO process ALPA inadvertently used the same company income file to calculate both the March and April 15th DCO deductions. The affected members will see this error reconciled in the May 15th DCO deduction. The end result will be that the sum of your DCO deductions for April and May should correlate with the sum of your March and April income. We apologize for any inconvenience this error may have caused. If you have any questions please feel free to call MEC Secretary-Treasurer, Chris Baker at 866-339-2572 (ext. 2011).

MAWK90

Thanks for the email. Guess I missed that one. What doesn't make sense per the email is if March (5wk month) was the same amount withheld on April (4week), then ALPA owes me money. It also indicates that the problem will be fixed on our May 15 check, which according to my calculations is not the case. Thru the May 15th check, my gross pay indicates that there has been 2.62%.....

HazCan

Yeah, it didn't make a lot of sense to me either.

I guess I should check mine out too.

MAWK90

I looked, the total dues withheld this year so far is almost $640 MORE than it should be.

fedupbusdriver

Didn't you guys here? They needed more money to support the age 60 deal.

HazCan

Well, yeah. It's the right thing to do and all.

MAWK90

Seriously, does anybody else notice the same thing on their checks??

Busboy

ALPA dues are paid on the previous months earnings.

From your 4/30 paystub:

Look at your "Gross Pay". Deduct the "Excess Life" and "Plt N/T PD".

To that number you have to add December 2006 earnings.

Now, divide that number into your year-to-date "ALPADues" from your 5/15 stub.

It should come out to 1.95%

Mine did.

fdx727pilot

Well, the deduction on Mar 15 was for Feb, a 4 week month. The deduction on Apr 15 was suppose to be for Mar, a 5 week month, but instead used the same amount as the Mar deduction covering Feb. Therefore, we owe ALPA for a week or so of income. I just looked at my pay stubs, and the Apr deduction was identical to Mar. Seems right to me, but I'm not currently in an Anti-ALPA frame of mind.