Ep.1: How Our SkyWest AFA Campaign Started
On this episode of “It’s Time Live,” we chat with three SkyWest Flight Attendants about how the SkyWest AFA campaign started and why they know it’s time for SkyWest Flight Attendants to have a real voice at SkyWest Airlines.
U.S. Based Flight Attendants Ratify Contract and Norse Atlantic Airways Makes the Case for Most Worker Friendly Airline in the World
Following an historic pre-hire agreement, company neutrality in union organizing, an historic card check certification by the National Mediation Board, Norse Atlantic Airways U.S.-based Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, voted unanimously to ratify their first contract. The two-year deal locks in industry leading starting pay and job protections in the U.S., comprehensive healthcare, a 401k among and other key benefits.
Court orders Arizona-based Mesa Air Group to change family leave pay policy
In a court filing from the Association of Flight Attendants, it was stated that flight attendants aren’t paid for every hour on duty. Instead, they receive hourly pay only while the aircraft is moving. The result of the company’s policy made it difficult for pilots and flight attendants to qualify for family and medical leave.
Inaugural Flight for Norse Atlantic Airways
Norse Atlantic Airways inaugurated service recently with crews who will soon become AFA members! The Points Guy took note, “ I chatted with the flight attendants….they were US-based and sported Association of Flight Attendants-CWA pins…These flight attendants were excited about their union-in-waiting”
AFA Reaches Pay Improvements, Summer Reliability Deals with American Wholly-Owned Regionals
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), representing Flight Attendants at American’s wholly-owned regionals Envoy, Piedmont, and PSA, have reached agreements with the airlines to increase pay, provide a retention bonus, summer reliability incentive program, and significantly improve commuter benefits.
Flight Attendants Fighting Back
Sara Nelson, the head of the largest flight attendants’ union, leads her members through turbulent times and mounts a major organizing drive at Delta.
