Airline Strike action in 2024

[Malcolm]

On the news today:

Alaska Airlines flight attendants authorize strike, raising stakes in contract talks

Feb. 14, 2024 at 7:12 am

By 

Alex DeMarban

Anchorage Daily News

Flight attendants with Alaska Airlines voted to authorize a strike for the first time in more than 30 years on Tuesday.

News of the vote emerged as more than 60 flight attendants protested for better pay outside the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

The vote does not mean a strike will occur.

But the decision raises the stakes in an effort by the attendants to negotiate what they say is their first new contract in a decade. They say Alaska Airlines has awarded large pay increases to pilots but does not even provide a livable wage to some of its flight attendants.

The negotiations have dragged on for more than a year, and flight attendants have held multiple protests outside the Anchorage airport and other airports nationally.

 Flight attendants for major U.S. airlines rally to protest lack of new contracts

Alaska Air flight attendants on Tuesday picketed outside 30 airports in three countries, said Rebecca Owens, spokesperson for the Local Council 30 in Anchorage for the Association of Flight Attendants. Flight attendants with 24 airlines were involved.

 

[mrlupin]

WestJet Pushes Aircraft Maintenance Workers Down Path Toward Strike Or Lockout

https://www.amfanational.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=916318

 

[Seeker]

1 hour ago, mrlupin said:

WestJet Pushes Aircraft Maintenance Workers Down Path Toward Strike Or Lockout

https://www.amfanational.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=916318

 

Wow.  That's quite the news release.  

[Maverick]

On 2/15/2024 at 7:13 AM, Seeker said:

Wow.  That's quite the news release.  

All the indications are that WestJet was not expecting quality representation from AMFA. 

They were wrong.

Edited February 16 by Maverick