Cathay Pacific U.S.-based Cabin Crew Organize for an Election to Join the Flight Attendant Union
Cathay Pacific U.S.-based Cabin Crew Organize for an Election to Join the Flight Attendant Union
Union Cards Submitted to Federal Agency on October 24
Washington, DC (October 25, 2016) — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), on behalf of Cathay Pacific U.S.-based Cabin Crew, filed on Monday for a union representation election. Cathay Cabin Crew demonstrated overwhelming support for AFA with signed authorization cards asking for an election. Now they eagerly await the National Mediation Board (NMB) to call for an election.
The NMB is the federal agency that oversees union representation elections in the airline industry. Once the NMB verifies the signed union authorization cards submitted by AFA, an election will be called. A schedule for the voting period will be announced by the NMB.
Cathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong. Cathay operates multiple cabin crew units in the U.S. in addition to Canada, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangkok. Cathay operates daily flights out of LAX, SFO, JFK, BOS, ORD to Hong Kong. The company employs approximately 450 cabin crew in the U.S. with bases in SFO, LAX and JFK.
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The Association of Flight Attendants is the Flight Attendant union. Focused 100 percent on Flight Attendant issues, AFA has been the leader in advancing the Flight Attendant profession for 71 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 50,000 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.
