Negotiators for American Eagle, flight attendants reach tentative deal
comments ()American Eagle and the Association of Flight Attendants said Friday that their negotiators have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract. “American Eagle is pleased we were able to...
View ArticleAmerican Eagle flight attendants will vote Aug. 8-Sept. 5 on new contract
comments ()Under cost-cutting pressure from American Eagle management, Association of Flight Attendants leaders voted Thursday to send a tentative agreement to a vote by the 1,800 American Eagle flight...
View ArticleFlight attendants at American Eagle approve new contract
comments ()Flight attendants represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA have approved a new contract with American Eagle, with 87 percent voting in favor, the AFA said Friday. The union...
View ArticleAirline strike votes, the latest thing?
comments ()It occurs to us that we’re seeing a number of airline unions announcing strike votes this year. The latest call for a strike vote came Tuesday from US Airways flight attendants and the...
View ArticleDispatchers reach tentative agreement with American Eagle
comments ()An American Eagle spokesman said Tuesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with its dispatchers, the last unionized group remaining without a new contract with the regional carrier....
View ArticleAMR Corp.’s Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors supports American...
comments ()The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in AMR Corp. and American Airlines’ bankruptcy today gave its support for American Eagle’s labor contracts with three unions. The UCC’s approval...
View ArticleUS Airways flight attendants ratify new contract on third try
US Airways flight attendants have finally adopted a single contract that covers both pre-merger America West Airlines and US Airways flight attendants, nearly 7½ years after the two carriers merged in...
View ArticleFlight attendants launch attack against relaxed carry-on rules
The Flight Attendants Union Coalition is launching a battle to get the Transportation Security Administration to back down from its plans to loosen up the carry-on rules April 25. The new rules will...
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Unions at American Airlines, US Airways want Nov. 12 trial on antitrust...
UPDATE, 1:45 p.m. Friday: The Allied Pilots Association, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the Transport Workers Union and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, filed an amicus...
View ArticleWe have reaction to the Nov. 25 trial date set for the American Airlines-US...
We’re in the air between New York and Dallas via Houston. Michael Lindenberger of the Dallas Morning News Washington bureau covered the Friday hearing in which U.S. District Judge Colleen...
View ArticleSouthwest Airlines has tentative agreement with AirTran Airways flight...
Southwest Airlines and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA announced Tuesday that the carrier and the union have a tentative agreement covering the 1,400 flight attendants still working for...
View ArticleUnions ask permission to file brief in US Airways-American Airlines antitrust...
Unions representing American Airlines pilots, American and US Airways flight attendants and US Airways ground workers asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to let them file a brief in the...
View ArticleFlight attendant unions at new American Airlines reach deal on who’ll...
The two recently quarreling unions that represent flight attendants at the new American Airlines have an agreement that lays who will represent those employees as American merges with US Airways. The...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Group and its American and US Airways flight attendants...
We don’t have details, but the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA have a deal between themselves and with American Airlines Group on how they’ll...
View ArticleAFA members at US Airways will be asked to join APFA as flight attendants...
There appears to be two key parts of the deal struck among American Airlines, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. According to some details...
View ArticleUS Airways flight attendants OK agreement with American Airlines union
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said Friday that US Airways flight attendants approved an agreement on how it and American’s flight attendant union will bargain for a combined contract....
View ArticleEx-TWA flight attendants sue American Airlines, Association of Professional...
American Airlines flight attendants who came from Trans World Airlines are suing American Airlines and their current union, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, over seniority. The...
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NMB agrees with flight attendants that American Airlines and US Airways are...
The National Mediation Board concluded Tuesday that American Airlines and US Airways are a “single transportation system,” as requested by the flight attendant unions of the two carriers. The next...
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NMB certifies APFA as union to jointly represent flight attendants at...
The National Mediation Board has certified the Association of Professional Flight Attendants to represent flight attendants at American Airlines and US Airways, the union said today. The APFA, which...
View ArticleIt’s that day again — Sept. 11
I was born in early 1952, more than 10 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and in the middle of the Korean War. They were only events in history by the time I became aware of the past. My first big...
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