Greetings,

AFA Files for Election 

AFA Here We Come!

We must be breaking a record somewhere.  In just a few weeks we managed to gather more than enough cards to file for an election with the National Mediation Board (NMB). 

The timeline for the election will be determined by the NMB. 

Meanwhile, AFA Authorization Card collection will continue.  As usual, there is one attached to this newsletter.  If you have not already done so, please sign a card and send it in ASAP. 

AFA Meets with Leadership Council

Yesterday, AFA met with representatives of the Frontier Flight Attendant Leadership Council.  The meeting was very productive.  Representing AFA at the meeting was Frontier Flight Attendant Erika Schweitzer, AFA MEC President at Midwest Airlines Toni Higgins, and AFA Senior Staff Negotiator Beth DeProspero.

AFA was very pleased to be given the opportunity to meet with the council and to learn more about it and gather their opinion of the situation Frontier is now in.  We believe both sides left the meeting with a much better understanding of one another and a good working relationship. 

Often, members of the leadership council at an unrepresented airline are those who step forward to become AFA leaders once the representation election is over.  In fact, Toni Higgins was a member of the Midwest Airlines council prior to the AFA election there in 1999.

The Leadership Council relayed a message of support to the Midwest flight attendants, a message the flight attendants at Midwest will be happy to receive.  Now that Frontier is going to MKE it is important for everyone to be sensitive to the fact that the Midwest flight attendants are losing their jobs, at least for the time being, because of RJET management's decision to outsource their flying to RJET. 

As a group, the Leadership Council intends to remain neutral during the representation election.  However, as individual flight attendants, each of them has an opinion and is free to share that opinion if he/she wishes to do so. 

AFA would like to thank the Leadership Council for inviting us to meet with them and look forward to strengthening our relationship in the future.

Our Work Has Just Begun

Sure, the cards have been filed.  But we still have a lot of work ahead of us.  Card collection will continue and we will begin preparing for the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) phase of the election. 

Thank you for your amazing work with the card collection.  Together, we can win this election and ensure that the Frontier Flight Attendants will have a choice in their union.

F9 for AFA Coalition of Frontier Flight Attendants