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.
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.
Thanks for all you do.
—Sara Nelson
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