Bargaining Update

Alaska Airlines

AFA-CWA Flight Attendants at Alaska Airlines participated in pop-up pickets outside the San Diego International Airport, Portland International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to demand a fair contract and better treatment of workers. The Flight Attendants expressed their concerns about the lack of adequate pay, fair treatment, and poor working conditions. The picketers were joined by supporters and allies who displayed their solidarity with the Flight Attendants and their fight to improve standards for all workers. Members of AFA-CWA Alaska are planning further actions throughout the rest of the summer to make their voices heard.

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National Audubon Society

Workers at the National Audubon Society, members of The Bird Union (CWA Local 1180), delivered a letter last week to Audubon CEO Dr. Elizabeth Gray, calling out the organization for creating an inequitable workplace and demanding that newly-granted worker benefits, including increased parental leave, be extended to all Audubon staff. The letter, signed by a majority of the union’s members, comes in response to Audubon’s decision to take a page out of Starbucks’ union-busting playbook and roll out new, enhanced benefits only to non-represented staff. The Bird Union also delivered the letter to Audubon offices across the country.

Rather than immediately extending the new benefits to union-represented Audubon workers, Audubon presented them to the union as contract proposals and urged the union to quickly accept the substandard and incomplete contract in order to access the new benefits. This disgraceful bargaining tactic comes as Audubon management continues to push back against a number of proposals that The Bird Union has brought to the bargaining table to improve the lives and livelihoods of Audubon’s workers. The workers are committed to continuing to mobilize and pressure the organization to bargain in good faith for a first contract they deserve. Read more here.