AFA Claim: “No one was left out in the cold” in United AFA retaliation situation
Reality: This is false.
AFA recently doubled down on how it handled an issue involving a group of United AFA flight attendants who retaliated against a peer for reporting safety concerns. After an investigation, nine flight attendants and two AFA officers were terminated. AFA sued United seeking to prevent the company from investigating the actions of the two union officers.
Contrary to AFA’s claims that it protected all flight attendants during the process, a filing in the court case offers a glimpse of the AFA officers’ actions:
In a meeting with United, one of the AFA officers referred to the targeted flight attendant as “condescending,” “sneaky,” and “predatory”.
After being contacted by the two union officers, flight attendants prepared false statements against their targeted peer.
The AFA officers then provided the false statements to United management. None of the materials presented by AFA to United disputed the credibility of core factual allegations in the targeted flight attendant’s original safety complaint.
The judge dismissed the case, but AFA has appealed and continues to seek what was described by the judge as a “cloak of immunity” for the two AFA officers, whom they claim are protected from inquiry by the Railway Labor Act and the “institutional role of a union.” This protection supposedly did not exist for the other flight attendants involved. The appeal is on hold while United and AFA go to arbitration. In the meantime, the two terminated union representatives continue to hold their union positions with United AFA’s Local Executive Council.
Rather than protecting all its members, AFA protected the two AFA officers as they targeted another AFA member. Compare that to the direct relationship and Delta’s culture of support and collaboration and the choice is clear.
Find more information about the United investigation here.
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