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Cabotage
You've heard of "outsourcing", think it can't happen to us? READ ON...
Cabotage would allow foreign air carriers to fly point-to-point within the United States for the first time in our history. We have heard a lot in the news media recently about the trend in corporate America of “outsourcing” U.S. jobs to countries overseas. This is our version of “outsourcing”. This is one of the most dangerous initiatives being promoted by those who don’t care whether or not American jobs are lost in the process. The AFA Government Affairs Department has been working with the AFL-CIO to ensure that American aviation jobs are not lost, and that safety and salaries are not sacrificed in the name of corporate profits. |
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Top Four (4) Legislative Priorities for Flight
Attendants (From a poll taken of AFA members from all carriers in April)
1. Preventing further increases in the amount of health care premiums and out-of-pocket costs paid by active AFA members.
2. Getting the government to mandate a certain minimum amount of rest for fight attendants between trips.
3. High quality, industry-wide security training for all flight crew members.
4. Getting Congress to approve Family and Medical Leave Act coverage for flight attendants as long as they fly at least 540 hours in a year. |
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Cabotage is an issue that has been lingering in Congress for some time. AFA staved off an attempt during this last session of Congress, and we continue to monitor this situation. Presently, Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic is attempting to start up Virgin America. Branson has a history of undercutting the competition by paying his flight attendants minimum wage and providing next to nothing in benefits. He is also purported to have stated that flight attendants should never consider making the job a life long profession and should automatically retire at age 30. He has strong supporters in Congress that would like to
see him enter the U.S. market and undercut our domestic carriers and American jobs.
AFA Government Affairs is again working with the AFL-CIO to inform Congress that foreign subsidized carriers, such as Branson’s Virgin, will hurt the ability of U.S. carriers to compete. Furthermore, we will not stand for such treatment of employees who work hard to build an airline and then are not rewarded for their labor – now or ever.
Please use your democratic right to vote for those who SUPPORT flight attendants.
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TSA Fails to
Provide Aviation Security Training Guidelines
Agency Ignores Mandate, Friend Tells Senate Panel
 WASHINGTON
June 22, 2004 – Maintaining that the needs of flight attendants to
adequately perform aviation security functions have been "delayed, denied
and ignored," Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Pat Friend
today urged U.S. senators to force the government to issue standards for
flight attendant security training.
"The job of a flight attendant is first to protect the flying
public," Friend told the Senate Commerce Committee during a hearing on
aviation security. "Unbelievably, almost three years after the horrific
events of September 11th, 2001, we still have not been trained to
appropriately handle a security crisis or terrorist attack onboard our
airplanes." Full
Press Release
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