Flight Attendants Supporting Flight Attendants

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) is a Union of 50,000 Flight Attendants at 19 airlines.  Flight Attendants know we are Stronger Together!  Last week, thousands of Flight Attendants were empowered to picket during a “Day of Action” at 30 airports around the world fighting to advance our Flight Attendant career through Contract negotiations.

• NBC Nightly News:Flight Attendants on the Picket Line
• Skift:Flight Attendants Weigh Strike as Frustrations With U.S. Airlines Mount
• Reuters: Alaska Air flight attendants authorize strike for first time in three decades
• Jacobin:Sara Nelson: let’s show bosses they’re lucky to have our work
• CNBC: Pilots got their payday. Now flights attendants are pushing airlines for higher wages

This informational picket was to empower all Flight Attendants!  When we win our Flight Attendant Union we will no longer have to be concerned about speaking up or advocating for ourselves with a fear of “retaliation” by management.  When we win our Flight Attendant Union, we win legal protections and the right to a “healthy, direct relationship” with management that includes shared power to shape our Flight Attendant career.

The History of Empowered Flight Attendants

Flight Attendants have a great and storied history of changing the world for the better.  It is in our Flight Attendant nature to serve others. The most common explanation we hear from one another about why we are building Breeze AFA is, “I’m not flighting for myself, I am flighting for the Flight Attendant next to me and all of the Breeze Flight Attendants to come.” This is what makes Breeze AFA so powerful!

Check out the new PBS Documentary Flight Attendants challenging corporate and societal shenanigans to forge our jobs from “skygirls” into a great lifetime career open to everyone.

The Plane Truth – Talking About Breeze AFA on the Plane

Management is frantically attempting to spread misinformation and confusion so they can keep their power over us. For some reason, management does not want us as Breeze Flight Attendants to have a legally recognized voice in our Union where they are required, by law, to negotiate directly with Breeze Flight Attendants about improvements to our career and any changes to our job description.

Several times this week in writing and in meetings, management has said that “Flight Attendants can’t talk about the Union on the airplane.” This is a lie. 

According to the Railway Labor Act (RLA), the law that protects our right to organize our Union –management will not “Prevent an employee from discussing the prospect of a union while at work as long as it does not interfere with work duties” (RLA: 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Third), (Fourth); 29 C.F.R. § 1205.2.)

When we discuss the problems of mismanagement happening at Breeze, we as Flight Attendants have a right to discuss solutions!

Why does management want to suppress talk about our Breeze AFA Union?

What is corporate afraid of?