Overview
- APFA is urging roughly 28,000 members to wear red “WAR” pins and blue union lanyards as a visible show of unity and pressure on management.
- “WAR” stands for “We Are Ready,” a slogan from the 2024 contract fight, and the union frames the pins as symbolic rather than a sign of an imminent strike.
- Union leaders cite poor financial results, operational failures, and strategic missteps and say flight attendants will not accept new wage or work-rule concessions.
- The campaign follows the APFA Board’s unanimous no-confidence vote in Robert Isom on February 9, with the union calling for a change at the top.
- American’s board has not removed Isom, and pilot representatives with the Allied Pilots Association have also urged his resignation.