Proposed JCBA To Be Sent To Full Membership For Ratification

The leaders of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), representing Alaska Airlines and former Virgin America Airlines, reached an agreement with Alaska Airlines on a joint collective bargaining agreement (JCBA) covering over 5,400 Flight Attendants.

"We worked hard to achieve improvements for the Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants while simultaneously balancing the need to quickly address the disparity for the former Virgin America Flight Attendants working under their current pay and work rules.  The JCBA accomplishes those goals and provides for a smooth path to combine the two Flight Attendant groups," said Jeffrey Peterson, AFA president at Alaska Airlines.

Highlights of the agreement will be released to members and include contractual improvements and pay increases for all Alaska Flight Attendants. The agreement also provides for immediate parity on pay rates for former Virgin America Flight Attendants who will transition onto the Alaska JCBA.

The JCBA will be sent out for full membership vote. Virgin America Flight Attendants joined AFA in April 2017 shortly after the announced merger of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America.

(Source: AFA news release. Image from file)

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