AFA-CWA Reaches Tentative Agreement with United Airlines, Winning Boarding and Sit Pay

In March, Flight Attendants at United Airlines, represented by AFA-CWA, reached a tentative agreement with the company after more than four years of bargaining. This agreement came during mediated bargaining and is expected to improve base pay, impose restrictions on red-eye flying, and improve language on accommodations.

Notably, the agreement includes language setting boarding pay. This contract would continue to solidify boarding pay as a new standard for compensation going forward. If ratified, the improved pay scales and boarding pay would go into effect on May 31, with the June schedule month.

The tentative agreement will go to AFA-CWA members for a vote starting on April 23, with voting concluding on May 12.

The tentative agreement was made possible by the determination of AFA-CWA United Airlines Flight Attendants and the hard work of the AFA-CWA United Master Executive Council.