Southwest looks forward to continuing negotiations with TWU 556 and the National Mediation Board so that we can reward our Flight Attendants and continue attracting great talent."
Informational picketing is common during contract negotiations, and we do not anticipate any disruption in service resulting from the demonstration planned by off-duty Flight Attendants. "Southwest Airlines has an award-winning Culture that respects our Employees and encourages them to express their opinions. The demonstrations are not expected to have any impact on flights in and out of the airport Southwest Airlines statement United employees are expected to be out from 10 a.m. The Southwest employees will be demonstrating from 10 a.m. Tuesday's demonstration is all part of a nationwide effort that is taking place at more than a dozen airports. MORE: Travelers rank 2022’s best and worst airports in North America The union is also calling for better health benefits. It also wants Southwest to create a modern reserve system that will keep flight attendants from being put on 24-hour on-call shifts. Where do you think Southwest Airlines is as an institution? Let us know with civility in the comments, please.įor more updates check below links and stay updated with News AKMI.The union wants the airline to fix its technology that impacts both customers and workers. Recently, SWAPA President Casey Murray alleged on The SWAPA Number podcast that Southwest Airlines, “Ambles along with no real no real vision and no real motivation.” Clearly a different day for Southwest Airlines than the heydays of Kelleher. Nowadays, Southwest Airlines’ unions have informational picket after informational picket. … That’s a kind of a tribute to the kind of relationship we have.” It’s interesting because after you’ve established a relationship of trust and understanding a couple of times, we’ve had leaders that probably were not too conducive to the well-being of Southwest Airlines as a whole, and their own membership has voted them out of office without any urging or effort on our part. They reciprocate, they respond to that very, very well. … In other words, having a little realism recognizing that the people that you’re dealing with have you know their responsibilities too and being very cognizant of their needs. We treated them as partners because if that canoe goes down, we’re all going to go down with it. As evidenced by the above YouTube interview at Stanford Business School, Kelleher said, Ultimately, Southwest Airlines’ founder Herb Kelleher had a different view of labor relations. Herb Kelleher had a different view of labor relations “Doing the pickets is trying to put some pressure as we stand in front of the public and tell them, you know why we are here.” Nonetheless, the informational picket served essential purposes of solid visuals, airline passenger education, and in the words of Casey Murray, SWAPA President, One can read more about the picket in last week’s labor relations round-up.
We cannot go on like this.” The hope is that on September 27, an informational picket would “light a fire” to get to a contract. Montgomery was clear – “We have to get change. It doesn’t help when the flight attendants and pilots use the same outdated scheduling system. Southwest Flight Attendants are also reporting issuesįor TWU Local 556 President Lyn Montgomery, as per above, the issues at Southwest are spreading to the “bread and butter” of the flight attendants she represents and passengers. Nonetheless, SWAPA wrote an open letter earlier this year demanding CEO Robert Jordan act to stop the climb of necessary fatigue reports from SWAPA members. Pilot fatigue is a growing concern for Southwest Airlines and other carriers, including Delta Air Lines. But Southwest pilots are flying six days straight with 25% of the trips rerouted, adding to the ongoing fatigue crisis. Photo: Southwest AirlinesĪccording to one of the SWAPA negotiating committee members, Southwest chief pilots are calling trying to lobby pilots not to call in fatigued.
Southwest Airline Pilots Associaiton members are growingly concerned about creeping fatigue.
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