Where Your AFA Dues Money Goes........

Fighting For FAT Girls to Wear BIG Red Dresses!!

Enough already.

"...It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Girl Wears Red"



Seems AFA has once again demonstrated they have lost touch with reality. AFA officials have committed your, mine and our dollars to battle for a minority of disgruntled flight attendants for not being given the opportunity to wear Richard Tyler's and Delta Airlines' signature red dress. It seems the dress is not made in sizes larger than 18. I like fat girls too, but come on. Would you be caught dead in a red dress larger than size 18??
For most fashionistas.......NEVER

All of this, during the most contentious unionizing battle in labor history.

It would seem after losing numerous organizing battles at Delta Airlines, the one shot AFA has at winning this organizing campaign simply rides with the former Northwest flight attendants they currently represent. It would seem all guns would be drawn in this battle to organize and WIN the Delta vote during this single operating certificate decision to incorporate AFA to represent the new Delta flight attendants or leave them behind. Not so.

Rather than focus on the labor battle, AFA has instead chosen to spend valuable resources to argue the merits of fat girls wearing red dresses! That's right. No strategy, again. The media hysteria surrounding the red dress controversy has done little to win over the public. The frivilous complaint only demonstrates to our Delta colleagues the bloated and misguided leadership of the AFA organization. AFA once again loses credibility in the eyes of the public and even in the eyes of potential voters. It seems AFA even supplied a media spokesperson when the red dress fiasco broke but when AFA recently decided to file for an election, it was via a "press release" and "no comment available" from AFA.

What??

Once again it would appear AFA has lost its sense of direction. Rather than winning snap backs for its members or battling for more money in our pockets.....the priorities have once again been misplaced, misguided and misdirected.
You decide........

• Has AFA's frivilous red dress grievance put money in your pocket?
• Has AFA's misguided grievance won you any credibility?
• Has AFA's misplaced grievance won the hearts and souls of our Delta colleagues?

I think not.

NEXT TIME: Your Dues At Work: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. Are "unelected by the membership" appointees Danny Campbell and Bruce Retrum each worth over $90,000??? Last year each earned over $90,000 (prior to Retrum's election to MSP LEC)..Imagine what his entitlement will become now! ....quite simply, highway robbery and NOT worth what our dues pay them. By the way, what has "negotiations" been doing exactly the past couple of years to justify the $90,000 salary?? (and remember these people are the same people who bitched about PFAA wages....which hardly compared to this AFA ripoff!)

Delta Seniority Integration Committee Steal the AFA Thunder!

On February 11th, 2009 the Delta Integration Committee released a statement disclosing their unanimous vote regarding the integration of the Delta and Northwest flight attendants. The committee recommendation is an "In-Flight Date of Hire" merge. This truly is the only fair integration and is a win for all the flight attendants!

However, one can only imagine what is going on at AFA Headquarters with this announcement. The AFA union has successfully used their fear-mongering rhetoric since the merger announcement and just one of those "reasons" to keep AFA on the property was to protect the "date of hire" integration supported by AFA.

NOW WHAT??

Seems the merger committee has agreed to the DOH integration, and stolen away the AFA rumbling and fear-mongering thunder!

• Despite AFA's refusal to meet with this committee at possibly a detriment to the membership.......this committee did the right thing!
• Despite the AFA refusal to allow the flight attendants to get on with their lives and call for an election, the merger process goes forward
• Despite the AFA refusal to even discuss integration until "they" think an election should be announced
• Despite AFA refusal to talk but rather sue in court instead!
• Despite the general membership seeking an expedited merger, including pay raises! AFA refuses to listen to the voice of the members
• Sounds like its all about dues and winning an election. Clearly, the interests of the membership have been put aside all for the $$$$$$$$

Well, quite simply the Delta Integration Committee did their job, unlike the AFA. It would seem that maybe, just maybe, many of the AFA members might be thinking......Well, it looks like it will be DOH, so maybe one more reason to ignore the AFA fear mongering and scare tactics. And just one more reason why maybe the AFA war drum may not be in any one's best interest for our future........just a thought!

With all the fear mongering AFA thunder gone, the all powerful and mighty AFA is left with simply....a bunch of hot-air!

Here is a link to the most current "merged" lists. Spend a minute checking out this GREAT site, as well.....for all the latest flight attendant information.

http://www.fainformation.com/Assets/files/mergedlist.pdf