Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2025) — Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson, representing 55,000 Flight Attendants at 20 airlines, released the following statement on the termination of the Veterans Affairs' Collective Bargaining Agreements:

"What Secretary Collins and the Trump administration just did to our VA workers shows pure contempt for our veterans. Terminating the union contracts of VA workers directly harms more than 120,000 veterans on the VA staff who serve their fellow veterans, and hundreds of thousands of civilian employees who dedicate themselves to giving vets the care they've earned. This is union busting. It's anti-vet. And it's spitting in the face of American values. Their intent is clear: break the VA to justify privatizing it so those funds can enrich their billionaire friends in the private healthcare corporations."

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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 over 79 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. 55,000 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.