Flight Attendants Nationwide Fight for Their Jobs with Pres. Sara Nelson
Pres. of the Association of Flight Attendants, Sara Nelson says to workers, In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand fold. featuring Sara Nelson, Pres. of the fifty thousand members, at twenty airlines, Association of Flight Attendants
The Association of Flight Attendants is fighting to protect 100,000 jobs in airports nationwide with the expiration of the corona virus legislation on October 1st. And here we are" with this White House, recognizing that the last thing we can do is take the rights weve gained for granted. Mother Jones told us, We will fight and win. Fight and lose. But above all, we must fight! Our rights are never absolute. They exist because generations of workers died to give us these rights says Sara Nelson who became prominent nationally after threatening a general strike during the month long government shut down in 2018 over Trump's demand for funding his border wall in which more than 800,00 Federal government workers went without paychecks. The next day Trump reopened the government, absent his wall funding. A staunch advocate of the use of strikes Nelson has been mentioned as a successor to AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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