Article: AFA Announces United Flight Attendants Elect Militant Leadership.

Article: United Airlines to start early labour negotiations with flight attendants.
Airline Industry Information;  September 27, 2000 ;     256 words ......Goodwin, the head of United Airlines, has told flight attendants that he will reopen...contract on 26 August. Flight attendants with United Airlines had threatened...president of the United flight attendants` Master Executive Council stating, `United must ...

Article: US federal court rejects appeal from United flight attendants.(United Air Lines Inc.)(Brief Article)
Airline Industry Information;  November 2, 2005 ;     157 words ......Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from the flight attendants of United Airlines. The federal court said that it saw...judge to allow the airline to terminate the flight attendants' pension plan and transfer it to the Pension...government's pension insurer. The Association of ...

Article: United Airlines To Recall 1,200 Furloughed Flight Attendants.
Business Wire;  February 21, 2002 ;     199 words ......additional 1,200 of the 2,700 United flight attendants who were furloughed last...brings to 2,000 the number of flight attendants recalled since January 31...markets and would recall some flight attendants and furlough fewer pilots...

Article: Not enough Delta flight attendants voted in union election for vote to count
AP Worldstream;  May 28, 2008 ;     420 words ...Delta Air Lines Inc. flight attendants have again failed to get the...union. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement Wednesday...not enough of the eligible flight attendants voted, and therefore the results...

Article: Flight Attendants Sue Northwest Airlines for Failure to Honor Contract.
Business Wire;  July 3, 2003 ;     350 words ......WIRE)--July 3, 2003 The Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) today filed a...labor contract covering the airline's flight attendants. The suit was filed in the U.S. District...permit union dues to be deducted from flight attendants' paychecks. The lawsuit also seeks...

Article: Alaska Airlines and Flight Attendants Reach Tentative Agreement on Four-Year Contract.
Business Wire;  August 2, 1999 ;     304 words ......and interest-based bargaining, flight attendants and Alaska Airlines today jointly...would cover Alaska's nearly 2,000 flight attendants, who are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO. Highlights include...

Article: A History of Flight Attendants.(Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants)(Book review)
Journal of Social History;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry (Durham: Duke...Kathleen M. Barry's monograph on flight attendants explores the history of unionization...range of sources, Barry examines flight attendants from the 1930s through the 1970s...

Article: Two unions try to attract Northwest flight attendants.(Transportation Workers Union and Association of Flight Attendants)(Northwest Airlines Corp.)(Brief Article)
Airline Industry Information;  October 11, 2005 ;     187 words ......of the Northwest Airlines flight attendants. The Transportation Workers...mail-in vote by Northwest flight attendants, who have so far also received...cards from the Association of Flight Attendants. If more than 50% of the...

Article: American says recalling nearly 250 furloughed flight attendants
AP Worldstream;  December 14, 2007 ;     297 words ......plans to recall about 250 furloughed flight attendants. For American, this is the seventh...recent ones, involves former TWA flight attendants who were laid off after the Sept...bought TWA out of bankruptcy. The TWA flight attendants were put at the bottom of American...

Article: Delta Air Lines flight attendants make another effort to unionize
AP Worldstream;  February 11, 2008 ;     277 words ...Some Delta Air Lines Inc. flight attendants are seeking to unionize...by Atlanta-based Delta's flight attendants to unionize failed. Delta...The latest efforts by the flight attendants come as consolidation talks...

Article: 10 on United flight hurt by turbulence; Chicago-bound flight diverted to Denver
AP Worldstream;  January 21, 2008 ;     85 words ...Heavy turbulence injured 10 people, including two flight attendants, on a United flight bound for Chicago flight early Monday, the airline said. Flight 1028 was diverted to Denver International Airport at about 3 a.m. and the eight passengers and two flight attendants were taken to ...

Article: One in 10 flight attendants suffer injuries at work.
Airline Industry Information;  April 26, 2000 ;     173 words ......carried out by the Association of Flight Attendants, has revealed that 10% of 31,024 flight attendants reported an injury that needed medical...to be absent from work in 1998. Flight attendants suffer injuries or illness related...

Article: Flight attendants settle at USAir. (collective bargaining agreement)
Monthly Labor Review;  May 1, 1993 ;     369 words ......for USAir and the Association of Flight Attendants ended 12 days of marathon bargaining...labor contract, covering some 9,000 flight attendants nationwide. The major sticking points...2.9 percent for senior (A-scale) flight attendants and of less than 1 percent for less...

Article: US flight attendants call for boycott of Disney's 'Flightplan'.(Brief Article)
Airline Industry Information;  September 29, 2005 ;     222 words ......LTD The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the Association of Flight Attendants and the Transport Workers Union, Local...aboard an aircraft. While one of the flight attendants in the film cooperates with an air...