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For Immediate Release: August 3, 2012
Contact: Corey Caldwell 202-434-0586
American Eagle Flight Attendants To Vote On Tentative
Agreement
Washington, DC – Flight Attendant leaders from American
Eagle, represented by the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA (AFA), today unanimously approved the
recent tentative agreement and will now send it out to
the over 1,800 Flight Attendants for a vote. AFA
American Eagle leadership convened a special meeting to
review the terms of the agreement, announced on July 27
and, after a review of the provisions, recommended that
the membership vote to ratify the deal.
“This process has been difficult and has taken an
enormous amount of time and effort, but AFA was
successful in pushing back against outrageous contract
cuts first proposed by management. We forced onerous
concessions off the table, mitigated the ones we
accepted and negotiated early snap-backs for some of
them. There are no pay cuts or wage freezes. It is now
up to American Eagle Flight Attendants to decide if this
is an agreement that they can live with in the context
of bankruptcy wherein all the negotiating advantages lie
with management,” said Robert Barrow, AFA President at
American Eagle.
AFA is preparing member meetings at each Flight
Attendant base to outline the tentative agreement and
answer questions. A comprehensive summary and the full
language of the tentative agreement will be provided to
each Flight Attendant. Ballots will be mailed out the
week of August 5 and the count date is scheduled for
September 7.
American Eagle is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMR
Corporation, with Flight Attendant domiciles in Dallas,
Miami, Chicago, San Juan, Los Angeles and JFK-LaGuardia.
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 come together to form AFA, part of the
700,000-member strong Communications Workers of America
(CWA), AFL-CIO. Visit us at
www.afacwa.org .
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