APFA to join AFA for White House vigil
The Association of Flight Attendants has gotten everyone's attention with its plan for nationwide strikes if any single airline abrogates an AFA contract, as both United Airlines and US Airways propose to do.
Another union, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents attendants at American Airlines, notified its members over the weekend that anyone who is free to do so is asked to fly to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 14, to join other flight attendants for a solidarity march and candlelight vigil at Lafayette Park across from the White House.
"We will be standing together to show our support for both the United and US Airways flight attendants who are currently struggling to protect and preserve their contracts," said APFA President Tommie Hutto-Blake. "The United and US Airways flight attendants need our help!"
US Airways and United Airlines are both in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and a bankruptcy judge has the legal power to set aside union contracts.
The next legal step in the drama will come on Thursday of this week when US Airways will appear in bankruptcy court in Alexandria, Va., to ask the court to impose wage and benefit cuts to save it $1 billion a year. However, the judge is not expected to rule until January, while the judge in the United Airlines bankruptcy is not expected to rule until February.
The Association of Flight Attendants, which represents attendants at Hawaiian Airlines, Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines, has indicated that it will deploy job actions across the nation without necessarily making any prior announcement.
The Association of Flight Attendants has gotten everyone's attention with its plan for nationwide strikes if any single airline abrogates an AFA contract, as both United Airlines and US Airways propose to do.
Another union, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents attendants at American Airlines, notified its members over the weekend that anyone who is free to do so is asked to fly to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 14, to join other flight attendants for a solidarity march and candlelight vigil at Lafayette Park across from the White House.
"We will be standing together to show our support for both the United and US Airways flight attendants who are currently struggling to protect and preserve their contracts," said APFA President Tommie Hutto-Blake. "The United and US Airways flight attendants need our help!"
US Airways and United Airlines are both in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and a bankruptcy judge has the legal power to set aside union contracts.
The next legal step in the drama will come on Thursday of this week when US Airways will appear in bankruptcy court in Alexandria, Va., to ask the court to impose wage and benefit cuts to save it $1 billion a year. However, the judge is not expected to rule until January, while the judge in the United Airlines bankruptcy is not expected to rule until February.
The Association of Flight Attendants, which represents attendants at Hawaiian Airlines, Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines, has indicated that it will deploy job actions across the nation without necessarily making any prior announcement.
