On September 6, 2016 the three pre-merger MECs will be called together for a Special Meeting to merge the MECs and address all of the necessary transition issues associated with doing so. The meeting is open to active members in good standing.
United Flight Attendants came together yesterday around the system in an incredibly successful showing of solidarity.
The merged seniority list is compiled as reported to AFA members since the merger of United/Continental/Continental Micronesia was first announced in 2010.
The Professional Airline Flight Control Association (PAFCA) and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) have enjoyed a collaborative and mutually supportive relationship since we started representing United’s Flight Dispatchers in 2000.
ALPA and AFA have a longstanding relationship advocating for the common benefit of our members and all airline employees. Before AFA received its own charter from the AFL-CIO to represent flight attendants, it was a division of ALPA. Today, AFA is the most effective flight attendant union in the industry, looked to first for guidance on federal legislation, workplace safety, and other matters affecting flight attendants.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a long history of working with your union, the Association of Flight Attendants and the Communications Workers of America. Our unions seek to organize airline workers to build power to lift the standards of the middle class.
Today, Members of AFA joined our ALPA Sisters and Brothers at the offices of Altimeter Capital Management and PAR Capital Management, located at One International Place in Boston. AFA and ALPA, together with our friends from American, Southwest, and Jet Blue, walked the picket line and demonstrated our resolve to ensure our company remains on the right track under Oscars leadership.
Hostile hedge funds, PAR Capital Management, Inc. and Altimeter Capital Management, Inc. are distracting from new leadership efforts to improve United Airlines by seeking to wrestle control of the UAL Board. Flight Attendants, other employees, passengers and economists recognize this move is about short-term gain in share price, not long-term success for United Airlines.
The Machinists Union strongly supports the AFA and looks forward to continuing and strengthening our partnership.
Our Sisters and Brothers at ALPA have invited AFA Members to join them at a picketing event in Boston on Wednesday, April 6th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM.
As a reminder, our Sisters and Brothers at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), who represent United Mechanics, have asked us to join them at their Day of Action on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation and Industrials Conference at 383 Madison Ave in New York City.
Our Sisters and Brothers at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), who represent United Mechanics, have asked us to join them at their Day of Action on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation and Industrials Conference at 383 Madison Ave in New York City.
Today the United Airlines Mechanics represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) rejected the company’s current closeout proposal by a 93.2% vote. A overwhelming 87% of eligible Members voted. The leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have stated that they will petition the National Mediation Board (NMB) for a release to begin a strike.
More than five years after the everyone-but-the-media-saw-it-coming disaster that is the merger of United and Continental airlines, big business media is switching gears.
The joint CAL, CMI and UAL Master Executive Councils (MEC) met together last week to discuss our negotiations strategy moving forward.
We hear you. It is well past time for a joint contract at United Airlines. You deserve to participate in the profits you help create and you deserve the security of a merged operation that offers a consistency of schedule and job security.
Our negotiations are being undermined by this current structure and it is time to act to merge the MECs. We encourage you to join us as we move forward with one voice - 24,000 United.
In response to an analyst statement and question during United’s third quarter earnings call October 22, Acting CEO Brett Hart seemed to downplay the schism between United’s management and its employees.
Oscar sent a letter to the Union Leaders at United inviting them to attend a summit with other Labor Leaders in Chicago. According to Oscar’s invitation, the purpose of the meeting is twofold; to hear from Labor Leaders and to provide an opportunity for Oscar to share his vision of the future of United Airlines. The invitation indicates the summit, scheduled for October 15, 2015 in Chicago, will be informal.
United and Continental closed their merger in 2010 and created what was then the world’s largest airline. Fifty-seven months later, executives are still working to integrate United Continental Holdings into a single company—and struggling with some high-profile operational and customer service problems.