How American Airlines Flight Attendants May Hand The Election To Donald Trump
American Airlines and their flight attendant union’s negotiating team are currently in Washington, D.C. with federal mediators in what the Association of Professional Flight Attendants labels ‘last ditch negotiations’. If a deal cannot be reached, they believe they can get the National Mediation Board to declare an impasse and release them from negotiations, starting a 30-day “cooling off period” that would then allow the employees to strike.
If this plays out as the union hopes – released to strike, and (assuming the company doesn’t fold to their demands) actually striking – American…