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Association of Flight Attendants
Collective bargaining
Alaska flight attendants vote on new contractÂ
Average raises total 32% over the three year contract, and AFA says the agreement would make Alaska Airlines the industry leader in pay.
Collective bargaining
Flight attendants could be near a season of strikes
Alaska Airlines flight attendants voted 99.48% to authorize a strike, and flight attendants at 3 other airlines are in late-stage mediation.
Collective bargaining
Alaska Airlines flight attendants mobilizing
Members of the Association of Flight Attendants say it’s time they got a real raise. And they mean to get it.
Collective bargaining
United Airlines unions unite on bargaining
Together, the 78,000 workers represented by the five member unions make up 85% of United Airlines’ workforce.
People
Questions for flight attendants union president Sara Nelson
Topics: flying union, airline consolidation, union unity and why there've been no strikes lately.
Union democracy
Corvallis native elected president of Flight Attendants union
Sara Nelson is an 18-year flight attendant at United
Union democracy
Portlander Veda Shook rises to top job in flight attendants union
At 43, she’s one of America’s youngest national union leaders.
Union Organizing
Delta flight attendants say ‘no’ to union
In votes counted Nov. 3, Delta Air Lines flight attendants chose not to be represented by Association of Flight Attendants. It was Delta flight attendants’ third unionization vote in a decade.
Union Organizing
32,000 Delta/Northwest airline workers vote on unionization
About 32,000 flight attendants, ramp workers, ticket agents and other workers at Delta airlines workers will decide over the next several months whether or not to be union-represented — under new rules that eliminate a major obstacle to winning union representation.
