The Communications Workers of America have filed with the NMB (National Mediation Board) to have an election to represent American Airlines passenger service agents.  The NMB will decide who should represent the passenger service agents and then set an election.

American Airlines says it respects the rights of its workers to organize and points out that it has excellent communications with this work staff. 

I rather suspect that what American Airlines would like to say is “Give us a break.” 

No doubt the CWA senses it has an opportunity here in that American can hardly afford to fight this battle very well during bankruptcy and I’m sure the CWA becomes a much more attractive choice for passenger service agents who probably feel pretty strongly that they would like to have a seat at the table when it comes to AA’s bankruptcy reorganization.

I’ve already pointed out that AA’s major unions all won a seat on the unsecured creditors committee and when you have such a seat, you have a major voice in who and how the airline is run during reorganization.

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