Flight Attendants Donate Services to Haiti Relief Flight
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Members of the Flight Attendants-CWA working for United Airlines donated their services on a Haiti relief flight to call attention to the efforts of the American Red Cross. You can take action now to help the Haitian survivors by clicking on the AFL-CIO Haitian Disaster Relief site here.
Five Chicago-based United flight attendants helped usher aid workers and supplies to Haiti and returned last night with some of the earthquake survivors.
The United Airlines Foundation announced it will match up to a total of $50,000 to the American Red Cross when donations are made by United employees or passengers. To make a donation with the matching funds, click here.
Flight Attendants Protest Slow Contract Talks with United
Contract negotiations are going way too slowly with United Airlines, so the Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) today is holding informational pickets at 17 different airports around the globe to protest “the failure of United Airlines management to negotiate a new contract on time.”
This from the Daily Labor Report (subscription required):
The AFA’s frustration with United has smoldered for five years, after flight attendants were forced to accept severe wage and benefit cuts as part of the carrier’s reorganization. United’s parent, UAL Corp., emerged from three years in bankruptcy with flight attendants providing $131 million in labor savings annually. Under the 2005 agreement, flight attendants’ hourly wages were trimmed 9.5 percent and their defined benefit pension plan was jettisoned to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. In the intervening years, flight attendants watched wave after wave of layoffs as United realigned operations in response to changing demand for air travel.
AT&T West Workers Reach Agreement—and Other Bargaining News
AT&T workers in California and Nevada reach a tentative agreement—and more updates from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,100 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our website, Bargaining@Work.
SETTLEMENTS
CWA, AT&T: Some 23,000 AT&T workers in California and Nevada, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), reached a tentative agreement. The settlement terms are similar to those ratified by CWA locals in the Midwest last Saturday. The ratification vote is expected to be completed by Sept. 1.
