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  • American Airlines Passenger Service Agents Vote for Union Representation

    American Airlines passenger service agents have voted to be represented by a coalition of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

    AA’s agents, who staff the gates and counters at airports and handle reservations, had voted down the CWA in 2013, prior to the Dec. 9 merger of US Airways and American.

    But their US Airways peers are currently represented by the CWA-Teamsters coalition, and their employees combined with American’s employees to approve the CWA-IBT association as their union.

    The CWA said that of the 11,187 voting, 86.2 percent of the airport and reservations employees had voted for the CWA-Teamsters coalition: 9,640 for, 1,547 against.

    American has about 9,000 employees in the class, joining about 5,500 from US Airways, for a total of 14,500 in the new group. We’re told that there were 13,962 eligible to vote. Those numbers indicate that a clear majority of all eligible employees, not just those voting, were in favor of the CWA-IBT association.

    Earlier Tuesday, the National Mediation Board said the Allied Pilots Association will represent about 15,000 American and US Airways pilots. Previously, it said the Association of Professional Flight Attendants would represent 24,000 American and US Airways flight attendants.

    “With today’s election results, union representation for our three largest workgroups is now settled, and we will be working with each of those unions on joint collective bargaining agreements covering the combined employee groups,” American spokesman Paul Flaningan said in a statement.

    “We have enjoyed a productive relationship with the CWA-IBT as well as our other unions and look forward to continuing our work together,” he said.

    “We are honored to represent a total of more than 3,000 passenger service agents at the New American Airlines,” Teamsters airline division director David Bourne said the Teamsters’ announcement.

    “The Teamsters are committed to providing American Airlines employees and our existing members at US Airways with strong representation as both airlines continue to integrate in this merger,” Bourne said.

    In the CWA press release, Texas reservation agent Carroll Locklear said she has worked 18 years for American “and through all of those years I have been praying for this day.”

    “We have been the odd employees out for so long, because we were the only employees without union representation. Gone are the days that management can take what want when they want. This will be  a win-win for all of us,” said Locklear, a home-based agent.

    AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka issued this statement (CWA is an AFL-CIO member):

    “Today, thousands of workers embraced a union future. The hardworking men and women of American Airlines and US Airways voted for union representation and a legally binding contract. Their collective skill has built successful airlines, and their collective voice will build successful workplaces.

    “It should not be lost on the pundits that most of the nearly 14,500 new union members work in southern states. The right to a voice at work doesn’t have a geographic predisposition, and this victory will energize ongoing organizing efforts in the South.

    “I want to thank all parties involved, including elected officials, for enabling workers to have a free and fair election. And I especially want to congratulate CWA and the Teamsters on helping give these workers a voice.

    “Clearly, one of the largest labor organizing victories in the South in decades is a historic day. But it also shows that the future of the U.S. labor movement is alive, as these workers can be found at airports, call centers, even working from home. The right to collectively bargain will always be what our working family fights for.” 

    By Terry Maxon

    tmaxon@dallasnews.com 

    1:44 pm on September 16, 2014 


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