Passenger Service Agents at American Airlines Subsidiary Take Concerns About Poverty Wages to the National Stage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 21, 2018

Passenger Service Agents at American Airlines Subsidiary Take Concerns About Poverty Wages to the National Stage

Passenger Service Agents at American Airlines Subsidiary Take Concerns About Poverty Wages to the National Stage

Airline workers on food stamps? Union targets American Airlines subsidiary in fight for livable wage

Five days a week, Takisha Gower leaves her Euless home for her 6 a.m.

Airline workers on food stamps? Union targets American Airlines subsidiary in fight for livable wage

Congress Members Urge AA to Pay Agents a Living Wage

Over 80 members of Congress sent a letter to American Airlines CEO Doug Parker on February 8 urging him to “conclude your collective bargaining negotiations and ensure that all of your employees can earn a living wage.”

Congress Members Urge AA to Pay Agents a Living Wage

Marching for a Fair and Equal Contract in Phoenix

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, almost 200 workers joined in solidarity at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona, to demand a fair contract for all passenger service agents who work for American Airlines under the company’s Piedmont and Envoy subsidiaries.

Marching for a Fair and Equal Contract in Phoenix

American Airlines Bonus No Substitute for Fair Wages

While CWA is pleased that American is paying employees a one-time $1,000 bonus, it falls short of the permanent wage increase that working families were promised as part of the Republican corporate tax cut.

American Airlines Bonus No Substitute for Fair Wages