The Employee Involvement Team

There seems to be a lot of buzz and spin going on about the intent of EIT (Employee Involvement Teams). I will not address the spin or the local politics, but I would like to clarify what an EIT is.

EIT is - A group of employees working "non contractual" issues/opportunities that will make our DTW WorldGateway a better place to work. A group of employees working on operational processes that will make our operation better for customers and fellow employees. I will use the term "group" because I think there is some confusion on who and how the process works. There is no formal process of who can or can't get involved. Currently, we have fellow employees, from each group, working on employee communications, employee recognition, health & wellness and a social committee involvement group. We find these are important concerns of fellow employees and we think all opinions and views should be reviewed and discussed. I think good progress has been made and this is a much better process then having the management team driving the decisions for all employee issues outside the contract.

Here is a current example of EIT in action;
NWA has allocated funding in 2007 to clean up Ready Rooms and add some employee friendly items to the facilities. Instead of your Director or myself deciding what will be in the Ready Rooms, your fellow employees assisted us in voicing what employees really wanted. The important part was getting people "involved" in the process and getting a good cross section of opinions.

Again, the important part is "getting people involved" in non-contractual issues versus having your leadership team making all of these types of decisions for you. We truly want to get people involved and make this a better place to work.

I hope this helps clarify some of the confusion regarding the EIT groups. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments on these non-contractual issues.

Thank you,

Mark