AFA-CWA Flight Attendants Authorize Strike

Last week, AFA-CWA-represented Flight Attendants at Horizon Air voted 99.8% to authorize a strike at the wholly-owned Alaska Air Group regional airline. The vote is the result of seriously delayed bargaining and months of outrageously low economic proposals from Horizon management.

“We have dedicated our lives to Horizon and the communities that we serve,” said Lisa Davis Warren, president of the Horizon chapter of AFA-CWA, representing 650 Horizon Air Flight Attendants. “We are simply asking for the pay, benefits, and improvements we have earned. But Horizon management seems uninterested in resolving this dispute or showing the slightest concern for frontline workers who can’t afford rent or other basic life necessities.”

Their demands include living wage pay increases; increased pay for time at work, including while boarding the plane; better benefits; and work rule improvements.

The right to strike is triggered when the National Mediation Board (NMB) declares that negotiations are deadlocked and releases both parties into a 30-day “cooling off” period leading to a strike deadline.