Thu, Jun 11, 2009
Flight Attendants To Protest 2009 UAL Shareholder
Meeting
To paraphrase -- hell hath no fury
like an FA scorned -- especially when they seem to have some
serious beefs with United Airlines -- a company that makes it all
too easy to believe that they're in trouble for something... again.
UAL Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA-CWA), plan to join other workers for
the third year in a row to protest 'the greed and poor decisions of
CEO Glenn Tilton and other senior management.'
The FA's are expressing their fury 'with the repeated bonus
programs for hundreds of millions paid to executives while workers
are forced to endure concessions.' They claim that the UAL BOD,
Chaired by Glenn Tilton, is complicit in these failures of this
management including:
-
The Loss Of 50,000 Jobs,
- Shrinking United Airlines From Its Premier Status In The
World,
- Putting The Airline On The Chopping Block At Every Turn,
- Hundreds Of Millions Lost In Failed Hedges As Fuel Prices Rose
And Fell,
- Shareholder Payout While The Stock Price Plummeted And Other
Airline Conserve Cash.
The FA's charge that the UAL Board sat quietly during last
year's annual shareholder meeting as Glenn Tilton told one of
United's #1 customers to take his business elsewhere if he didn't
like what was happening at United.
The picketing Protest will begin an hour before the meeting
starts and continue at the conclusion of the meeting. Many of the
protesters will also attend the meeting.
More than 55,000 flight attendants, including the 16,000 flight
attendants at United, join together to form AFA, the world's
largest flight attendant union. AFA is part of the 700,000 member
strong Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
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