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Nearly two-thirds of AFA's 50,000 members — 35,000 flight attendants at 13 airlines — are currently engaged in bargaining or preparing for negotiations.

AFA-CWA flight attendants have several campaigns underway to safeguard bargaining rights and to restore fairness and equity for flight attendants who have been hit hard by the industry's economic downturn.

In a big victory for service workers, the Obama administration's economic recovery plan has extended federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to customer service professionals and high-tech and public sector workers who lose their jobs due to offshoring, imports, and other trade practices.

CWA's Executive Board has established a strategic industry fund to identify distressed CWA employers who are most at risk in the ongoing economic crisis.

Late last summer, typesetters at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were summoned to a conference room where they found the paper's big bosses with, as one worker described, "their heads hung low."