Comments on: American Airlines Flight Attendants Voted On New Union Officers, And Nobody Won https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/ Thought Leader in Travel Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: CHRIS https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5663492 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:00:51 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5663492 Did they count all of the mail-in ballots and 3am ballot dumps yet?

]]> By: DunkinDFDubya https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662374 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:46:50 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662374 Overwhelmingly low turnout considering they have nearly 27k members. They either don’t care for the candidates to vote for any of them or some are too tired from crushing candy or ticky tocking in the aft galley with the seat belts blocking the entry.

]]> By: NedsKid https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662311 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:09:57 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662311 No truer than today are the words I heard from a piano player/singer in the lounge at the Ramada at Des Moines Airport years ago….. “There are no winners in a game of losers.”

]]> By: sharon https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662301 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:48:07 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662301 Staggeringly low voter participation considering how many of the FA’s are unhappy about their wages, you would think they would want a say in their union leadership

]]> By: H.C https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662184 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:35:48 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662184 Why the need to do a mail in ballot? Its 2024. Especially with the younger group of f/a’s, everything is done on your phone these days. When voting was done “online” for a strike vote the voting percentages were spectacular. The junior flight attendants are too broke and busy flying to make a living to find their ballots and mail them in.

]]> By: Steve https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662168 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:39:13 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662168 I’m waiting for the “fire them all and hire people who really want to work” comments….1,2,3.

]]> By: Alert https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662160 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:22:40 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662160 @jns … Yes … they are too occupied looking at their mobile phones .

]]> By: jns https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662159 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:18:52 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662159 I looked up how many American Airlines flight attendants there are. There were over 27,000 in 2020 and over 30,000 in 2019 (American Airlines 2020 Workforce Demographics pdf). Wikipedia says that there are over 28,000. It seems to me that most are not voting even considering that some might not have vested voting rights yet. Are they too busy looking at their smart phones to waste time voting?

]]> By: Tim Dunn https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662153 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:53:55 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662153 surprise, surprise.
Labor politics – at least for the FAs – reflects the AA/US merger – which has left the company w/ poorly conceived and executed strategies that are constantly changing.

]]> By: A220HubandSpoke https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flight-attendants-voted-on-new-union-officers-and-nobody-won/comment-page-1/#comment-5662151 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:51:49 +0000 https://viewfromthewing.com/?p=199408#comment-5662151 “Is it an election year for union leadership or the government?”

“yes”

No way the Biden Administration would allow a strike to occur in an election year, after all the NMB would have to allow a WN and UA strike too and that is nothing but bad publicity for Biden.

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