Envoy Airport Agents Gearing up for Union Vote, Starting Next Week

Thousands of Envoy airport agents will begin voting at airports around the country next week on whether to join CWA.

Starting Tuesday, October 27, through November 17, the agents will finally get to vote for a union and the opportunity to bargain their own wages and set workplace rules.

Some 31 Envoy airport agents visited the nation's capital three weeks ago to ask members of Congress to contact the National Mediation Board on their behalf and the federal agency shortly thereafter set dates for them to vote on joining CWA.

The workers quickly gathered more than 1,200 signatures of coworkers on a petition calling for a fair election. They brought the petition to Congress, asking their elected representatives to contact the NMB and urge the agency to move ahead with a decision.

The workers are still waiting on the NMB's full board to determine whether all 5,300-plus Envoy airport agents are eligible to join the union. An NMB investigator disqualified as many as 2,200 workers from being eligible to vote; CWA appealed that ruling.