Dear MoveOn member,

This is Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, the union the represents more than 50,000 airline workers
at twenty airlines. 

For aviation, the coronavirus pandemic is creating a financial catastrophe
that dwarfs the economic cost of the Great Recession and Sept. 11
combined.

Washington is gearing up to save aviation, but we can't have another "no
strings attached" bailout where corporations and executives get payouts
while workers lose their jobs, their benefits and their pensions. We won't
let that happen again.

[ [link removed] ]Sign this petition demanding that Congress prioritize workers and their
livelihoods in the aviation bailout.

Sign this petition demanding that Congress support the "People First"
aviation rescue plan put forward by aviation workers and our unions that
protects our jobs and paychecks while holding corporations accountable
with legally binding rules, including these: paychecks continue with no
furloughs or layoffs, no stock buybacks, no executive bonuses,
no dividends, and no breaking contracts.

[2]Sign Sara's petition

Aviation will be critical for restarting our economy. But nearly all
aviation workers need background checks and security training that can
take weeks or even months. If workers are laid off and lose their
clearance, we will have long delays getting planes back in the air. That
will create a bottleneck in our recovery just as we need to get going
again. Unions representing workers across aviation have put forward a plan
that puts people first, holds corporations accountable, AND keeps aviation
ready to fly. We need Congress to support it. 

Our plan starts with keeping people on the payroll with no furloughs or
layoffs through direct federal grants so every aviation worker stays on
payroll.

Airlines and other corporations helped create this economic crisis by
using their cash to buy back their own stock. That's why our plan also
bans stock buybacks for companies receiving help and says no company
receiving help can hand out executive bonuses or stock dividends until
long after the money has been paid back.

It's a model that can be expanded across industries to keep people on
payroll and hold corporations accountable.

Tell Congress to support the People First package championed by aviation
unions and use it as a model for all impacted industries.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to add your name to this petition and stand with airline
workers, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks for all you do.

—Sara Nelson

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