The NMB has ruled that the AFA did break many of their election rules during last years campaign but that none of the violations were grievous enough to warrant a re vote.
At no time in recent memory has the fomenting of mistrust of all information sources other than the afa's been as acute as it was during last years representation campaign. When rational and intelligent conversation was needed to debate the merits of three (CMI included) vastly different labor contracts and compare the value offered by two different labor unions' cultures and styles, flight attendants were instead subjected to a quickly devolving series of events in airports and in the social media that had little to do with facts and more to do with emotional outbursts and the shrill hysteria that has characterized the afa's "representational" style for more than three decades. Of course, last year's election was won not by standing on a record of past afa achievements (ie: number of contracts negotiated and ratified for the ongoing benefit of WORKING flight attendants), but by threats, coercion, misinformation, and blatant disregard of NMB voting rules.
It is now time for all parties to come together for the good of the ENTIRE flight attendant population at the new United Airlines.
We challenge the subsidiary United afa to abandon its "alternative knowledge" system, with its own "facts", its own "history" and its own laws of economics and EMPOWER their members by making changes to the Constitution and Bylaws which would allow DIRECT member voting in ALL matters that affect the membership. Including, but not limited to, election of Joint Negotiating Committee members and Union Officers at ALL levels of the organization.
Until changes are made at the AFA to totally empower its membership and become a truly democratic Union, the FACC will continue to aggressively question and contest AFA "leaderships" decisions AS IS OUR RIGHT TO DO SO, FREE FROM INTIMIDATION OR HARASSMENT. The total environment of "pseudo-facts and pretend information" constructed by the CWA-afa for the s-United flight attendants consumption will no longer stand uncontested.
WE CHALLENGE THE AFA TO CHANGE AND EMPOWER ALL ITS MEMBERS SO THAT ALL FACTIONS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION CAN MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER.
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