Originally Posted by hayzel7773

Despite the lack of news, flight attendant labor relations have grown contentious yet again. TFAU has recently passed out pins and held a "member's update meeting", where they were gathering feedback on feelings of a strike, more protests etc. The pins were supposed to go onto the flight attendant's uniform under their name, but they were given a strict memo threatening job termination(uniform is company property). Flight attendants will instead pin it on their black bag. Throughout the last couple meetings, the union and the company have agreed to absolutely nothing and negotiations have pretty much stalled.

The biggest issue is the inability for each side to come to an agreement about those that are not members. The union calls them freeloaders and says its against the law, but BR will not budge on a blanket change to anything. TFAU membership at BR has declined these last few months according to some of the FA's. The company has refused to renew contracts after 5 years of some flight attendants and has not undergone any recruitment in 2018 as it cuts down on it's FA numbers.