TURNING POINT ELECTIONS......

TIME IS NOW

ALL ABOARD FOR AFA REFORM 

 

Remember the Representational Election campaign at the merged United Airlines between the s-UA and s-CAL flight attendants?? Remember the numerous Road Shows held by the s-UA AFA?

Let’s refresh your memory…

The s-UA AFA poo poo’ed the Company for offering UA Flight Attendants an agreement patterned after the very successful CAL negotiated contract. A contract that our CAL brothers & sisters have built, developed and enjoyed ever since the Union Busting days of Frank Lorenzo. Here are some of the things the s-UA AFA promised their flight attendants in the contract they subsequently negotiated…

 They promised you $60+ per hour max pay

 They promised you a 90 hour Reserve Guarantee

 They promised you greater flexibility

 They promised you No Give-backs

 They promised you No furloughs (they even told you that if they lost United would have to furlough 3000+ flight attendants)

 They promised you an Industry Leading Contract because you deserved it

Once the campaign was over and they no longer needed your vote, let’s see where they are today??

 $60+ per hour – NO

 A 90 hour Reserve Guarantee – NO

 Greater flexibility – They dropped the 100 hour cap yet retained daily and weekly restrictions AND a Trip Trade System that is outdated and favors the few senior f/a's

 No Give-backs – They gave up plenty

 No furloughs – Ask the 685…Our ranks are getting smaller while the CAL ranks grow every month!

 An Industry Leading Contract – Their “new” 2012 contract is barely out of the basement within the industry

This was no victory for s-UA flight attendants desperate to pay bills and desperate to put food on the table.

Over 200 years ago our forefathers had a revolution over the simple concept of “Taxation without Representation”, now it’s our turn! It’s time to fight for representation that does what we want! It’s time to fight for representation that listens to us. It’s time to fight for representation that adapts and grows based on the needs of ALL the members, not representation based on a world that no longer exists.

We need representation to look to the future! We need to get rid of the status quo at the s-UA AFA of the past!

This is OUR time and it’s OUR turn!!

VOTE FOR REFORM CANDIDATES AT YOUR LOCAL!

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The Saga Continues.........

In what has developed into a blizzard of disinformation, half truths, confusion, and outright lies, the flight attendant sector of the s-UA afa-CWA, in the throes of its demise as anything remotely resembling an entity that ANYONE takes very seriously at this point, has crossed the line from self-obsessed delusion and lapsed into wretched self parody.

Having capitalized yet again on propaganda, lies, deceit and bullying of the work force at s-UAL to win a representation vote at the merged Continental/United Airlines in 2011, afa-CWA union management has thrashed and flailed about with the desperate urgency of a drowning man, grasping at straws and making excuses for their consistently directionless and inept handling of contract negotiations and “representation” at EVERY airline unfortunate enough to have been conned by them.

S-UA MEC President Davidowitch has personally cost s-UAL flight attendants millions of dollars in lost potential income, and he continues to deny s-UAL the dignity of personal choice for no other reason than his continued employment at the MEC or potentially the International level.  His leadership does nothing but continue to harm the afa-CWA which itself is doing nothing for flight attendants’ long term job security at s-UAL. He, and his contemporaries at the s-UA MEC continue to vociferously fight changes to the constitution and bylaws that would allow WORKING flight attendants the ability to vote on officers AT EVERY LEVEL of the afa-CWA flight attendant sector, while members at our sister unions, such as APFA, vote on every officer who wishes to be of service, thereby ensuring officers are held accountable for their actions.  Those who fail to perform must answer to a voting rank and file, whereas the afa-CWA protects the arrogance and incompetence of its “leaders” by restricting the vote to the lowest levels of governance where local council presidents, pursuing personal political agendas and career aspirations of their own, do nothing but parrot the line dictated by union management.

 

The latest decision in denying a crossover  stripped s-UAL attendants of the choice to take control of their own future, free from the coercion, intimidation and harassment of the afa-CWA, UAL MEC and their groveling fawners, is another in a long line of actions designed to keep s-UAL attendants in ignorance and misery.

  

In what is shaping up to be the most critical election cycle in recent memory, flight attendants at EVERY carrier “represented” by the afa-CWA should make the most of this opportunity to effect REAL change within the organization that claims to represent their best interests but which has time and again put its business interests ahead of all else.  WORKING flight attendants have listened to forty years of excuse-making, endured needlessly protracted contract negotiations that have consistently delivered far less than what was promised, and are now witnessing the implosion of the afa-CWA sector’s largest MEC (UAL) as it stumbles blindly and without direction resulting in a loss of employment for  hundreds of s-UAL attendants.  Despite pathetic assertions to the contrary, this is SOLELY the responsibility of the UAL MEC and its president Greg Davidowitch – to blame the company or s-CO MEC or any other entity is cowardly and inane, but right in the afa-CWA flight attendant wheelhouse.

WORKING flight attendants have allowed too many opportunities for change to slip through their fingers.  It is long past time to push back against the corruption and bullying that has allowed an organization only remotely concerned with WORKING flight attendants’ best interests to run roughshod over a profession that other labor unions have managed to negotiate into well paying careers.  The afa-CWA’s reign of incompetence must come to an end by showing its current leadership to the door.

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