Election 2024: Our Right to Strike is on the Ballot
October 11, 2024 — Election Day is less than a month away. Do you have a plan to vote? Use our tool to check your voter registration status, register to vote, and find out what’s on your ballot. Ask your friends and family to do the same.
Our right to strike is on the ballot. The outcome of this election will directly impact our collective bargaining and right to strike for the foreseeable future. The President will select leaders for the National Mediation Board, whose support we need in negotiating our contracts and — if necessary — being released to a strike deadline.
We need elected officials who support collective bargaining and our right to strike. A credible strike threat is how we reach contracts we have earned. Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration, as well as our pro-labor allies in Congress who signed a letter to the National Mediation Board, we have been able to regain the credible threat of a strike in our negotiations—leading to Tentative Agreements at Alaska and American. As Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to extend payroll support and put a stop to all furloughs during COVID. She has also spoken out forcefully for the right to strike. We need this to finish negotiations across the industry.
Meanwhile, the other candidate has bragged about firing striking workers who are fighting corporate greed. He wants to deny workers’ overtime pay and already tried to do this when he was President.
As AFA members you will each make the personal choice to cast your vote for a host of reasons. That’s your business. But make sure you vote! We want all elected officials to know that Flight Attendants vote.
