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For Immediate Release: June 7, 2012
Contact: Corey Caldwell 202-434-0586
AFA Continental Flight Attendants Reach a New Tentative
Agreement with United
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) Continental
Master Executive Council and United Continental Holdings, Inc.
reached an industry leading tentative agreement on a contract
extension covering 10,000 subsidiary Continental Flight
Attendants.
Chicago, June 7, 2012 – The AFA Continental Master Executive Council has
reached a tentative agreement with United Continental Holdings,
Inc. covering 10,000 subsidiary Continental Flight Attendants.
The agreement extends their industry leading contract for 28
months while providing the Flight Attendants additional economic
and job security, benefits, flexibility, and growth.
The agreement is subject to approval by the union leadership and
then ratification by the subsidiary Continental Flight
Attendants. Upon successful ratification of the agreement, the
Continental Master Executive Council will immediately begin
working to bring the three United subsidiary AFA Flight
Attendant groups under a single contract.
“We are working to restore the career expectations of Flight
Attendants through innovative and positive working relationships
between labor and management – the policies of assured
destruction are giving way to the reality that mutually assured
success will lift and heal a battered workforce and industry,”
states Continental MEC President Marcus Valentino.
The Association of Flight Attendants is the world’s largest
Flight Attendant union. Focused 100 percent on Flight Attendant
issues, AFA has been the leader in advancing the Flight
Attendant profession for over 65 years. Serving as the voice for
Flight Attendants in the workplace, in the aviation industry, in
the media and on Capitol Hill, AFA has transformed the Flight
Attendant profession by raising wages, benefits and working
conditions. Nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 21 airlines,
including 10,000 professional Flight Attendants at the
Continental subsidiary of the new United, come together to form
AFA, part of the 700,000-member strong Communications Workers of
America (CWA), AFL-CIO. Visit us at
www.calafa.org .
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