The National Mediation Board (NMB) has certified the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as the representative of flight attendants at Mesa Airlines and Republic Airways as the carriers integrate into a single operation. The decision ends the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA’s (AFA) role representing Mesa flight attendants. Republic’s attendants had already been represented by Teamsters Local 135, so the certification establishes one union representative for the combined flight-attendant group.
This is a labor-representation development, not an aircraft occurrence or an operational…