Flight Attendants To Protest 2009 UAL Shareholder Meeting 

To paraphrase -- hell hath no fury like an FA scorned -- especially when they seem to have some serious beefs with United Airlines -- a company that makes it all too easy to believe that they're in trouble for something... again. UAL Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA-CWA), plan to join other workers for the third year in a row to protest 'the greed and poor decisions of CEO Glenn Tilton and other senior management.'

The FA's are expressing their fury 'with the repeated bonus programs for hundreds of millions paid to executives while workers are forced to endure concessions.' They claim that the UAL BOD, Chaired by Glenn Tilton, is complicit in these failures of this management including:

• The Loss Of 50,000 Jobs,
• Shrinking United Airlines From Its Premier Status In The World,
• Putting The Airline On The Chopping Block At Every Turn,
• Hundreds Of Millions Lost In Failed Hedges As Fuel Prices Rose And Fell,
• Shareholder Payout While The Stock Price Plummeted And Other Airline Conserve Cash.

The FA's charge that the UAL Board sat quietly during last year's annual shareholder meeting as Glenn Tilton told one of United's #1 customers to take his business elsewhere if he didn't like what was happening at United.

The picketing Protest will begin an hour before the meeting starts and continue at the conclusion of the meeting. Many of the protesters will also attend the meeting.

More than 55,000 flight attendants, including the 16,000 flight attendants at United, join together to form AFA, the world's largest flight attendant union. AFA is part of the 700,000 member strong Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

FMI: www.unitedafa.org