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Surprising Standoff: Why American Airlines Flight Attendants May Reject Record Raises

by Gary Leff on July 27, 2024

Jul 27 2024

A new American Airlines flight attendants contract gives crew immediate 18% – 20.5% raises, starts paying them (at half pay) during boarding during the first time, and adopts Delta’s generous profit-sharing formula. They also get changes to work rules, meal costs on the road and retirement contributions. It was likely the most they could get from an airline that underperforms financially, putting them on equal footing or slightly above the next-best paid flight attendants in the industry. But it doesn’t give them everything they’d hoped for.

Online, flight attendants are griping.

$25,000 Retro Pay and 28% Raises: American Airlines Flight Attendants Score Big with New Contract

by Gary Leff on July 26, 2024

Jul 26 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants have a tentative agreement on a new contract, four and a half years after the last one became amendable.

Details of the five year deal are now public. Between immediate pay rate changes and the addition of boarding pay, flight attendants will receive up to 28% raises immediately the month following contract ratification. And they’ll get full retro pay for the time spent without a new contract, which can be over $25,000 per crewmember.

Department Of Labor Investigating United Airlines Unfair Practices Over New Flight Attendant Sick Policy

by Gary Leff on July 23, 2024

Jul 23 2024

Employees are furious about this new policy. While the union says it’s filing a grievance, individual flight attendants have been bombarding both federal and state agencies with complaints on their own.

According to a voicemail recording received by a United flight attendant in response to a complaint regarding the new weekend sick policy requiring an absence certificate, the Department of Labor has assigned an investigator and is launching an investigation.

Any United Flight Attendant Calling In Sick Friday-Sunday Must Now Submit A Medical Treatment Plan Or Be Disciplined

by Gary Leff on July 21, 2024

Jul 21 2024

This absence certificate being required by the airline is extensive and invasive, demanding personal health information including a “treatment plan” and “progress of treatment” that is highly unusual to share with any employer – let alone for merely taking a sick day that an employee is contractually entitled to when sick.

American Airlines Reaches Contract Agreement With Flight Attendants

by Gary Leff on July 19, 2024

Jul 19 2024

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has updated its members, sharing that they’ve reached a tentative agreement with American Airlines. Knowing that they were negotiating this week in Phoenix, not D.C. and without the involvement of federal mediators, it was clear that they were close to a deal and simply had to finish up details.

This allows American to trumpet putting labor unrest and substantial risk behind them heading into their second quarter earnings call on Thursday of next week.

United Flight Attendants Call Strike Vote Amid American Airlines Contract Wrap-Up

by Gary Leff on July 16, 2024

Jul 16 2024

Now that American Airlines is huddling with its flight attendants union in Phoenix this week to wrap up a new contract, without even the help of federal mediators, United Airlines flight attendants are ready to turn up the heat in their own negotiations.

American Airlines Flight Attendants Back Down: Strike Not Likely, Deal Is Close

by Gary Leff on July 9, 2024

Jul 09 2024

The American Airlines flight attendants union has changed its tune. They are no longer telling their members that a strike is imminent. In fact, a strike has been the threat that has brought them close to a deal.

American Airlines Strike To Be Averted? Flight Attendants Union Says Progress Made On A Deal

by Gary Leff on July 1, 2024

Jul 01 2024

Hopefully this messaging suggests we’re closer than ever to a new agreement that both sides can live with – and then that the union can sell the contract they negotiate to flight attendants, who have been promised that the wait will be worth it in terms of big raises and full retro pay for four and a half years since their deal became amendable.

High Stakes In Washington: American Airlines Avoids Strike After Rare Weekend Meeting

by Gary Leff on June 30, 2024

Jun 30 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants union were summoned to a rare Saturday meeting in Washington, D.C. by the National Mediation Board.

The Mediation Board did not tell the parties that they were being released to ‘self-help’. Instead, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told its members that negotiations continue.

Tomorrow Is Zero Hour: Will Mediation Board Approve American Airlines Flight Attendant Strike In Rare Saturday Meeting?

by Gary Leff on June 28, 2024

Jun 28 2024

The National Mediation Board has called American Airlines and its flight attendants union to D.C. for a meeting this Saturday, after what the union described as “last ditch” negotiations failed just over a week ago.