Union leader: Flight attendants under threat from unruly passengers
By Michael R. Malone
07-22-2021
During a talk hosted by the Miami Herbert Business School, Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, highlighted the role of collective action to safeguard workers’ rights and livelihoods.
In an online discussion with the dean of the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School on Wednesday, Sara Nelson, currently in her second term as president of the flight attendant union representing some 50,000 industry workers across 20 airlines, shared behind-the-scenes efforts to protect airline industry workers rights and benefits as the pandemic took hold.