The Most Powerful Flight Attendant in the United States Has Just Been Reelected to Another Four Year Term & More News Here

Sara Nelson, dubbed ‘the most powerful flight attendant in the United States’ (even perhaps the world), has been reelected as president of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) for a brand new four-year time period.

The Association of Flight Attendants is by far the largest cabin crew union in the world, representing some 50,000 crew members at 18 airways. The union’s largest workgroup is the greater than 20,000 flight attendants at United Airlines, whereas its latest members will quickly begin flying for Norse, a transatlantic low-cost service.

In between, AFA represents flight attendants at Alaska, Frontier and Spirit Airlines and below Nelson’s route, the union is as soon as once more embarking on a concerted marketing campaign to persuade flight attendants at Delta Air Lines to be a part of the fold and unionize for the first time in the firm’s historical past.

Unionizing Delta flight attendants can be a significant coup for Nelson after a number of failed makes an attempt at getting the job finished. A 25-year flight attendant at United Airlines, Nelson first grew to become a union member in 1996 and has been worldwide president of AFA since 2014.

Already a rising star of the labor motion, Nelson actually got here to prominence in 2019 when her requires a common strike had been credited with serving to to finish President Trump’s authorities shutdown.

The following yr, Nelson received plaudits for main requires a federal emergency reduction fund for the pandemic-hit aviation enterprise. The multi-billion-dollar rescue package deal helped safe the jobs of tens of 1000’s of flight attendants and lots of different airline employees.

Under Nelson’s militant management, nevertheless, AFA has been criticized for a few of its political campaignings together with its assist, till lately, of the federal face masks mandate. Nelson and AFA lately joined the Roe v. Wade debate, calling the Supreme Court’s draft choice a “radical assault on our rights”.

Nelson was reelected at the forty ninth AFA-CWA Board of Directors assembly in Las Vegas on Saturday. Shortly after being confirmed in the place, Nelson instructed attendees: “Some may call these times desperate. We can recognize them as a call to action.”

“In the worst of times, working people have risen up to achieve our greatest gains,” Nelson continued. “Stronger together, better together is not just our slogan; it is our calling.”

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