Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Mine Workers Thank AFA Members for Support

The United Mine Workers of America personally thanked AFA Members for their action to help secure permanent healthcare for Miners. AFA members and other labor allies took action and now 22,000 retired Mine Workers have the permanent health care benefits that they were promised. Read the letter below:

The new age of airline rage: Why everyone on board is on edge

Originally published by CNN, May 8, 2017

A doctor dragged down the aisle of a plane. A brawl in the cabin. A fight in the jetway. A sobbing mother. An irate flight attendant. A dead rabbit.

The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls

Originally published in Buzzfeed

On April 10, 1917, an 18-year-old woman named Grace Fryer started work as a dial painter at the United States Radium Corporation (USRC) in Orange, New Jersey. It was four days after the US had joined World War I; with two soldier brothers, Grace wanted to do all she could to help the war effort. She had no idea that her new job would change her life — and workers’ rights — forever.

What's Going on in the Air?

Originally published in Fox News Travel

WASHINGTON (May 5, 2017) — It seems like everyone on an airplane has a hair trigger these days.

On April 21, a passenger aboard an American Airlines plane got into an altercation with a flight attendant he believed had hit a woman traveling with 15-month-old twins as he forcibly removed a stroller from her hands. The flight attendant was suspended. 

Written Testimony of AFA-CWA to Senate Committee on Questions, Answers, and Perspectives on the Current State of Airline Travel

Washington, D.C. (May 4, 2017) — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) today submitted the following written testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's Hearing on Questions, Answers, and Perspectives on the Current State of Airline Travel.

Written Testimony of AFA-CWA to Congressional U.S. Airline Customer Service Hearing

Washington, D.C. (May 2, 2017) — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) today submitted the following written testimony to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Oversight of U.S. Airline Customer Service hearing. 

Reinforcing Our Role as Aviation's First Responders

Dear AFA Members:

The past three weeks have been incredibly challenging for Flight Attendants following the events broadcast from the United Express, American and Delta flights. The mob mentality response to the video clips, with little correct information about the incidents, has put Flight Attendants in the cross hairs. We have been focused on trying to do a national de-escalation to keep travelers from coming to the plane with bias against crewmembers and the authority we must maintain to keep everyone safe.