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The union at American has estimated that crews will earn an extra $4.2 billion under its new five-year flight attendant contract, which includes retroactive as well as boarding pay, and ...
AFA Alaska represents more than 6,500 flight attendants. The vote of flight attendants that ended on Wednesday saw a 92.4% participation rate of eligible voters, the union in an online statement.
Alaska Airlines and its 7,000-member flight attendants union reached a tentative labor deal late Friday, concluding talks that lasted more than a year and a half.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) is a labor union which was founded in 1977 and represents over 28,000 flight attendants at American Airlines.In 2003, APFA played a major role [citation needed] in keeping American Airlines solvent and out of bankruptcy by giving back an employee bailout of $340 million in annual salary and benefits, for a total of over $3 billion.
The new contract provided Northwest with $195 million in annual cuts through 2011, and secured a $182 million equity claim for the flight attendants before it was lost upon the company's exit from bankruptcy. [citation needed] On August 16, 2023, Alaska Airlines flight attendants protested across the US for better wages and working conditions. [21]
Veda Shook is the former International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO. [1] An Alaska Airlines flight attendant since 1991, she previously served as AFA's International Vice President for a term beginning January 1, 2007. Today, AFA-CWA represents nearly 60,000 flight attendants at 23 airlines.
The report, however, did not provide any details on the negotiations. The Association of Flight Attendants rejected a three-year tentative labor agreement in August, saying it would survey members ...
In 1969, consumer advocate Ralph Nader was among the first in the United States to call for a smoking ban on airlines. [1] [2] Pressure for an inflight smoking ban also came from flight attendants' unions, such as the Association of Flight Attendants. United Airlines created a nonsmoking section in 1971, the first airline to do so. [3]