An organization that consistently pats itself on the back for up to the minute news and carefully controlled “transparency” should be more sensitive to their websites, like Negotiations Update, that haven’t seen an update since March 28, 2012. It provides an unintentionally hilarious snapshot of the neglect and lack of importance assigned to ongoing negotiations across the CWA-afa spectrum, and stands as a glaring example of the attempt to control information within each individual airline, thereby limiting the ability of casual observers to obtain a true picture of the “representation” provided by the CWA-afa flight attendants to cabin staff throughout the country. Instead of updated, real time information on the state of negotiations at various airlines, the CWA-afa relies on password protected conduits of information available only to members of that particular carrier, discouraging cross comparisons that would be readily made if general update pages were kept current.
