WASHINGTON, DC - Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants, i pani ʻia e ka Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), i kēia lā i hoʻopiʻi ʻia no ka mediation me ka National Mediation Board (NMB). ʻO kēia lā ka makahiki hoʻokahi o ka lā hoʻololi o ka ʻaelike.
"No nā ʻaelike ʻekolu i hala iho nei, ua pane ʻo Flight Attendants i ka noi a ka luna hoʻokele e mālama i nā kumukūʻai haʻahaʻa i ka wā i hana ai ka mokulele i kahi hoʻolālā lanakila," wahi a Jeffrey Peterson, ka pelekikena AFA ma Alaska Airlines. "Ua hui pū mākou me lākou me ka manaʻo maikaʻi. ʻO ka hopena, ua hāʻule nui mākou ma hope o kā mākou mau hoa mokulele i ka uku i ka hapa nui o nā uku uku a me nā lula uku.
"I kēia manawa, ma muli o ka hana ikaika a nā Flight Attendants, ka ʻālana a me ka hoʻolaʻa ʻana, ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ka Alaska Airlines a hoʻonohonoho ʻia e hoʻokele holomua i ka wā e hiki mai ana. ʻO ka manawa kēia no ka 3,100 Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants e komo i kēlā kūleʻa a e uku pono ʻia. Pono ke alakaʻi e noho pū me mākou a kūkākūkā i kahi aelike e hōʻike ana i ka lanakila o nā Flight Attendants o kēia mokulele, "wahi a Peterson.
Ua hoʻomaka nā kūkākūkā ʻana ma Nowemapa 2011, a ke hoʻomau nei i nā mahina he 18 i hala. Ua paʻa nā kamaʻilio no ka uku pānaʻi ʻoiai ke hoʻololi nei nā ʻaoʻao i nā manaʻo piha. "ʻO ka hiki ʻole o ka hoʻokele ke hoʻoponopono pono i nā ʻālana o nā limahana i hala a me nā mea uku koʻikoʻi i loko o ka puʻuwai o kā mākou ʻaelike koi i lilo i mau ala no ka holomua," wahi a Peterson.
“Makemake ko mākou mau kahu mokulele i kahi ʻaelike. ʻAʻole hiki ke mālama ʻia kā lākou hāʻawi ʻana i ka holomua o kēia mokulele," wahi a Peterson.
Ma lalo o nā alakaʻi NMB, hiki i kēlā me kēia ʻaoʻao ke noi i ka uwao.
