AFA makes promises it can’t fulfill
We know the operation has been challenging as the industry and global economy continue to navigate uncertainty and recover from the pandemic. Delta has not handled everything perfectly – but for years we have succeeded by working together to make Delta a better place to work and fly.
AFA paints a pretty picture about what it can deliver for you: “locking in” improved A-days, more boarding pay, even better profit sharing, and all the other improvements it claims it will achieve.
But the truth is AFA has never locked in anything – at any airline – that comes close to the package that Delta flight attendants already have.
Just look at United flight attendants, the largest workgroup that AFA represents. Do they have…
- Industry-leading pay? No.
- A-days? No.
- Boarding premium pay? No.
Based on recent union communications, flight attendants at other airlines are also experiencing many of the same issues AFA claims it will fix.
United (AFA) – Long hold times at Crew Scheduling, hotel quality issues, limited trip trading, rescheduling issues, catering challenges, and contract violations and implementation delays.
American (APFA) – Failures in crew tracking and crew scheduling, hotel/limo desk issues, and crewmembers forced to sleep on airport floors.
Spirit (AFA) – Kicked out of hotels, forced to sleep on airport floors and/or doubling (or tripling) up in a single hotel room, forced to stay at airport for 20+ hours and then being asked to operate flights, as well as long hold times for Crew Scheduling.
Southwest (TWU) – Poor communication tools with Crew Scheduling, antiquated reserve system and exhausting 24 hour on-call requirement, arduous reschedule havoc and stress and strains during irregular operations.
Regardless of negotiations, IROPs and related issues still happen at unionized carriers.
Part of the reason they haven’t secured something permanently addressing all these issues is that reaching a contract requires negotiations, and negotiations, by their nature, require compromise. Neither the company nor the union gets everything it wants in a contract. For example, Delta people worked to innovate the A-day program more than 18 years ago as a flexible alternative to reserve. But if we change one piece of that, it might require other changes. No one, including AFA, knows what would happen during negotiations.
We know the recovery has been tough but we will get through it together just like we have in the past. We have a long track record of listening to you, acting faster than our competitors and doing right by you along the way.
AFA, on the other hand, would bring to the table a long, drawn-out negotiations process that has never resulted in a better deal than what you have today.
Don’t Risk It. Don’t Sign It.
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