WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mesa
Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA (AFA), are gearing up for a possible strike at the
carrier after mediated negotiations recently stalled. Strike vote
ballots will be sent to the over 700 Flight Attendants on
February 28, 2017, with a vote count
scheduled for March 29,
2017. Mesa Airlines operates flights for American Airlines (as
American Eagle) and United Airlines (as United Express).
Mesa Flight Attendants have engaged in years of stalled contract
negotiations and are underpaid compared to other flight attendants
flying for United and American airlines.
"Mesa Flight Attendants are falling further behind with
substandard wages. We need wage increases now," said
Heather Stevenson, AFA Mesa
President. "It is time for management get serious about moving
forward on a new and significantly improved contract for Mesa
Flight Attendants. Mesa Airlines is an important partner in the
highly-profitable American Airlines and United Airlines
networks."
With negotiations recently stalled out over economic issues,
Mesa flight attendant leaders are seeking membership approval to
pressure Mesa Airlines management to agree to a fair
contract.
This lack of progress could lead to the National Mediation Board
(NMB) declaring that negotiations are deadlocked and releasing both
parties into a 30-day "cooling off" period leading to a strike
deadline. AFA has a trademarked strike strategy known as
CHAOS or Create Havoc Around Our System™. With CHAOS, a
strike could affect the entire system or a single flight. The
union decides when, where and how to strike without notice to
management or passengers.
Mesa Airlines is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and provides 600 daily
departures to 117 cities, 39 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Mexico including Dallas, TX; Houston,
TX; Phoenix, AZ; and
Washington, DC.
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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 71
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. Nearly 50,000 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.
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SOURCE Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA)