Laid-Off Flight Attendants Need Your Help

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/08/laid-off-flight-attendants-need-your-help/

Jeremy Bishop, executive director of Pride At Work, describes how we can assist laid-off flight attendants at Aloha and ATA airlines.

Recently, thousands of flight attendants at Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines have been laid off after their respective companies went out of business. As any working person can attest, this is a terrible time to be unemployed.

Once covered by contracts negotiated by the Flight Attendants-CWA, these flight attendants were forced to leave stable wages, health care benefits and a path to retirement behind for the unemployment line.

Quite frankly, their need is high, and resources are low. Pride At Work’s (P@W) national executive board has created a new website, www.prideinthesky.org, to show that our community is thinking about our flight attendant friends and family at Aloha and ATA in their time of need.

For a limited time, P@W will collect donations to pay for grocery store gift cards to help keep food on the table of flight attendants and their families in their incredible time of need. Now until May 30, for every donation of $30 or more, we will send a $20 gift card for groceries, with a personalized note and card from you, to former ATA or Aloha flight attendants in need. In addition, we’ll renew or make you a member of Pride At Work for one year, with $5 going to the P@W chapter closest to you. Click here to donate: http://www.prideinthesky.org/

If you give more, flight attendants and their families will receive more. If you give $100, $90 will go toward grocery store gift certificates. If you give $500, $490 will go to grocery store gift certificates. This is also a great way for union locals or affiliated organizations to show they care and renew or become a member of Pride At Work at the same time.

Please donate today. Flight Attendants are in need, and our community can show that we care.