As a result of having capitalized yet again on the consistently gullible and insensate work force at s-UAL to unthinkingly follow the dogmatic AFA old guard while they thrash and flail about in Polly the Parrot costumes on picket lines with the desperate urgency of a drowning man grasping at straws and making excuses for their consistently directionless and inept handling of contract negotiations, the s-UA JNC have only managed to cost the membership the potential of a combined contract on the July 23rd target date, and $1.5 million dollars in lost revenue from the  Company as a result of the termination of the Protocol Agreement between the Company and Unions. 

Our sources tell us the simple fact remains incontrovertible: the s-UA JNC , in fear of being replaced by their own LEC Presidents over their failures at the negotiating table and facing the end of their union employment, went crawling to their friend and co-conspirator, afa International President Sara Nelson, to help save them. Kevin Lum,  Jack Kande, Ken Diaz and Sara Nelson have personally cost s-UA flight attendants millions of dollars in lost potential income as they continue to deny s-UA f/a’s the dignity of personal choice for no other reason than their continued employment at the MEC and International level. Thusly enabling them to follow Nelson’s master plan of merging the MEC’s at UAL and getting rid of the CAL MEC once and for all; raiding APFA at American Airlines with the help of former AFA f/a’s at USAir; and once again making another organizing attempt at Delta. 

The latest EBOD back room decision to strip s-CAL flight attendants in SFO of the choice to take control of their own future, free from the coercion, intimidation and harassment of the AFA International Office and their fawners at the s-UA MEC, is another in a long line of actions designed to keep ALL United flight attendants in ignorance, misery and under the yoke of the AFA oligarchy.

Days of Action, parading around in Polly the Parrot costumes waving picket signs, parrot bag tags, red pins, creating vile websites and videos, and other myriad displays of infantile petulance do nothing but show the afa-CWA flight attendants’ true colors as an ultimately hollow and spineless front for career opportunists and hack wannabe politicians at the s-UA JNC, s-UA MEC and the highest levels of the organization at the AFA International Office. They are a contentious, dysfunctional group of whining, humorless idiots, who have inflicted economic harm on the flight attendant profession since the day they decided they should be THE one and only voice for flight attendants in this country and the membership be damned.

We welcome an Independent Union movement as the ONLY viable alternative to the altogether flawed and unfit “representation” embodied by the afa-CWA. We, the membership, are their employers, not their servants, and the time has come for a change.

 

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