A flight attendant,also known as a steward or stewardess;or air host or hostess,is a member of the aircrew aboard commercial flights,many business jets and some government aircraft. Collectively called cabin crew,flight attendants are primarily responsible for passenger safety and comfort.
John Joseph Sweeney was an American labor leader who served as president of the AFL–CIO from 1995 to 2009.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. As of January 2018,AFA represents 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines. Since 2004,AFA has been part of the Communications Workers of America (CWA),an affiliate of AFL–CIO. AFA is also an affiliate of the International Transport Workers' Federation.
Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a leading authority on successful strategies in labor union organizing,and on the effects of outsourcing and offshoring on workers and worker rights.
Richard Hurd is a professor of labor relations emeritus and former director of Labor Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Paul F. Clark is an American writer who is professor of labor studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is head of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Health Policy and Administration.
Ruth Milkman is an American sociologist of labor and labor movements. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the director of research at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Between 1988 and 2009 Milkman taught at the University of California,Los Angeles,where she directed the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
The International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) is a professional organization for trade union publications and media production departments of national,regional and/or local affiliates of the AFL–CIO and Canadian Labour Congress. It is a nonpartisan,non-profit organization which provides resources,expertise and networking opportunities for labor communicators.
Patricia A. Friend is the former International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA,AFL-CIO. A United Airlines flight attendant since 1966,during her 16 years as International President,Friend was a respected leader in the airline industry and throughout the labor movement.
Karen Nussbaum is an American labor leader and founding director of Working America. Nussbaum was born in Chicago where her mother,Annette Brenner Nussbaum,was a publicist,and her father,Myron "Mike" Nussbaum,was an exterminator,actor,and director. Her parents were active in the anti-Vietnam movement and worked to bring speakers to their community of Highland Park in Chicago including Staughton Lynd. During this time,the family was also receiving hate mail from the local John Birch Society. She enrolled in the University of Chicago in 1968 but dropped out to move to Boston and work in the anti-Vietnam movement. In 1975,she earned a B.A. from Goddard College. While in Boston,she began working as a clerical worker at Harvard where she was exposed to inequalities in the workplace for female office workers.
Veda Shook is the former International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA,AFL-CIO. An Alaska Airlines flight attendant since 1991,she previously served as AFA's International Vice President for a term beginning January 1,2007. Today,AFA-CWA represents nearly 60,000 flight attendants at 23 airlines. She was one of the 53 members of the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO.
Railway Labor Executives' Association (RLEA) was a federation of rail transport labor unions in the United States and Canada,often known as the railroad brotherhoods. It was founded in 1926 with the purpose of acting as a legislative lobbying and policy advisory body. At times,it played a prominent role in setting rail transport policy in the U.S.,and was party to six U.S. Supreme Court cases. It disbanded in January 1997,with representation,collective bargaining,and legislative lobbying assumed by the newly formed Rail Division of the AFL–CIO Transportation Trades Department.
Betty L. Tianti was an American trade union leader,the first woman in the United States to head a state labor federation,and the first state labor commissioner in Connecticut.
Sara Nelson is an American union leader who serves as the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA,AFL–CIO. A United Airlines flight attendant since 1996,she previously served as AFA's international vice president for a term beginning January 1,2011. AFA-CWA represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines.
The Building and Construction Trades Department,commonly known as North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU),is a trade department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) with 14 affiliated labor unions in the building trades. It was originally founded by the American Federation of Labor in 1907.
Jean Trepp McKelvey was an American economist specialising in arbitration and industrial relations. McKelvey was an esteemed tenure professor at Sarah Lawrence College (1932–1945) and Cornell University (1946–1976) where at the latter she was a founding faculty member for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations,developing the curriculum and teaching five courses including arbitration,labor law and labor practices. Coined the "mother of arbitration",in 1947 McKelvey was the first woman admitted to the National Academy of Arbitrators,in 1970 became its first woman president and established an arbitration training program for women and minorities. In addition to her successful published research career,McKelvey served on the New York State Board of Mediation (1955–1966) and Federal Services Impasses Panel (1979–1990) and received numerous accolades including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's Special Award for Distinguished Service in Labor Management Relations (1973) and Arbitrator of the Year Award from the American Arbitration Association (1983).
The 1985 Pan Am strike was a labor strike involving several thousand workers,all members of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU),at Pan American World Airways. The strike began on February 28 and ended one month later on March 28. It involved roughly 19,000 workers.
Barbara "Dusty" Roads was an American labor activist and American Airlines flight attendant. She successfully fought the industry-wide practice that fired stewardesses once they reached the age of 32,citing gender discrimination when compared to male pilots. She helped found the Association of Professional Flight Attendants in 1977,one of the largest independent labor unions.
Susan Jane Bianchi-Sand is an American former labor unionist.
