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For Immediate Release: December 6, 2012
Contact: Corey Caldwell 202-434-0586
Delta Connection Flight Attendants Request Release To Strike
After Negotiations Reach Stalemate
Washington, DC – Compass Airlines
Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA (AFA), today requested a proffer of arbitration
from the National Mediation Board (NMB), indicating willingness
to strike should management fail to negotiate a new agreement
for the nearly 450 Flight Attendants. If the NMB grants AFA’s
request and agrees that management has refused to make
significant movement, then negotiations will be declared
deadlocked and both parties will be released into a 30-day
“cooling off” period leading to a strike deadline.
“Compass Flight Attendants remain focused on reaching an
agreement that provides fair wages, working conditions and
benefits. Management’s unwillingness to engage in productive
negotiations leading to an acceptable tentative agreement is
self-evident, and we are asking the NMB to hold them accountable
for their lack of action,” said Catriona Bagley, AFA Compass
President.
Compass, a Delta Connection carrier, provides approximately 190
daily flights to over 50 Delta Air Lines destinations. Compass
Airlines is wholly owned by Trans States Holdings of St. Louis
and is headquartered in Minneapolis.
“Compass Flight Attendants are determined to reach an agreement.
We are committed to the success of our airline and our
contributions continue to make the company a top-of-the-industry
performer. If management continues to choose obstruction over
cooperation, then they should be prepared for CHAOS™.”
CHAOS, or Create Havoc Around Our System™, is AFA’s trademarked
strike strategy. With CHAOS, a strike could affect the entire
system or a single flight. The union decides when, where and how
to strike without notice to management or passengers. Throughout
negotiations, AFA has continued to address Flight Attendant
concerns
while management has consistently made proposals that are below
industry standards.
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 67 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 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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