Flight Facts. What management doesn't want us to know.
Not slogans. The numbers SkyWest Flight Attendants reported themselves, and what a contract does about each one.
Full method and results in the survey report. Invitations and reminders went to the SkyWest AFA email list over ten months.
The truth about dues.
Management talks about dues while executives collect bonuses and sell stock. The question isn't what a union costs. It's what going without one already costs us.
- Not a penny until we vote to approve a contract.
- Dues fund the legal, negotiating, safety and grievance work that protects us.
- AFA is a non-profit, Flight Attendant-run union with legally required financial transparency.
- Dues keep our union independent of the company. Nobody who signs our paychecks funds it.
The truth about leadership and democracy.
SIA is management-controlled and has no legal standing. A union is the opposite arrangement: the people doing the job choose who speaks for them.
- We elect our own leaders through secure elections.
- We control the agenda.
- We hold our leaders accountable at the ballot box.
The truth about negotiations.
Management likes to say contracts take forever. When they do, look at who is slowing them down: unacceptable proposals, stalled meetings, refusal to move on the issues that matter. Where management chooses to collaborate, contracts come faster.
- Priorities come from bargaining surveys and open discussion among us.
- No contract is final without majority approval by the members.
- The negotiation itself is protected by federal law.
The truth about legal rights and enforceable protections.
Right now we work at will. A policy can be read one way for one person and another way for the next, and there is no one to appeal to but the people who wrote it.
- Just-cause protection.
- Guaranteed representation in discipline meetings.
- Binding grievance and arbitration rights.
- Due process and protection from retaliation.
The truth about contracts vs. company policy.
A policy manual is a promise the company makes to itself. A contract is a promise it makes to us, and one the law makes it keep.
The truth about scheduling rights.
Scheduling was the top issue in the survey, and it is the part of the job that reaches furthest into our lives: rent, childcare, commutes, sleep.
- Predictable scheduling rules, in writing.
- A fair reserve system.
- Pay protection for cancellations, reroutes and reassignments.
The truth about AFA's proven record.
Not promises. Things AFA Flight Attendants already won, some of which you fly under today. Tap each one you've benefited from.
agree: it's time to change that.
SkyWest Flight Attendants are the largest non-union group left in the industry. That is not a weakness. It is the size of what we're about to do.
"Management has shown us who they are. It's time to show them who we are."
Lead with the truth.
Stand with your coworkers. Share the facts. Sign your card.