Blog post today on Terry Maxon’s Dallas Morning-News airline blog concerning the flight attendant union elections at American.
Terry’s post saves me from rehashing a lot of what he has already been written.
Essentially, the big issue with this election is the status of the ex-TWA flight attendants. Yes, again. Just like 2004.
I’ve been reading emails from supporters of both sides for the last week, and frankly, I don’t understand why this issue continues to be …an issue.
Or as Laura Glading, who is running for President is quoted in Terry’s blog, the subject “is over. Dead. Resolved in the courts.”
But the rumors of some kind of “deal” between Glading and the TWA group persist. And it would appear that Glading’s opponent, John Ward, is more than happy to make sure that remains the case.
John Ward, the former head of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, who is running against Glading won’t let the issue die. On his site, he claims that ex-TWA employees are going to vote in a block vote for Glading.
The bitterness reached such a point yesterday that Glading was forced to issue an email, which I received. In it she said, “I have absolutely no intention of changing or reshuffling the APFA seniority list. Furthermore, I did not make a deal of any kind with the former TWA Flight Attendants or the STL Base Reps regarding seniority in order to earn their support. The seniority issue has been settled in the courts. Anything that is being said or posted to the contrary is being done for the sole purpose of scaring the membership into voting for John Ward. Period.”
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Hi Holly,
I wasn’t paying attention to the Flight Attendant elections until I started receiving e-mail messages from Laura Glading. I have no bone to pick – I’m just a frequent flyer. I wonder what kind of underhanded tricks were used to get my personal e-mail address? It’s strange, because I’m not involved in any way. I signed up for the AA negotiation alerts in a hope that if trouble was really brewing, I might get a sense of it early. Besides your site and an occasional post here and there, unless AA shared their notification list (which seems unlikely), there’s something happening behind the scenes.
Sometime a few months ago, one of those AA Negotiations emails was sent out with the entire distribution list displayed name by name. This was an oversight on AA’s part. They even tried to retract the email sometime shortly afterwards as I got the retract request. Too late. Everyone’s email was already out. It was quite the list…. my favorite name on the list was none other than Glenn Tilton. But I digress. In any event, shortly thereafter, I started receiving the same emails you are. I’m not bothered by it, but I can understand why others might be. Each of Glading’s emails has an unsubscribe link, so you can get off that list if you want.
In any event, AA didn’t “sell” the list… it was inadvertently released.