Independent Union of Flight Attendants Records Bulk, 1977-1988 1964-1991, (Bulk 1977-1988)

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Independent Union of Flight Attendants Records Bulk, 1977-1988 1964-1991, (Bulk 1977-1988)

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The Independent Union of Flight Attendants was formed in 1976 by flight attendants at Pan American Airlines who were dissatisfied with their working conditions and their representation by the Transport Workers Union of America. This collection includes correspondence, by-laws, minutes, contracts, newsletters, and printed material documenting the decertification of the TWU, formation of the IUFA, collective bargaining agreements with Pan American Airlines, and grievance cases from 1976 to 1991. It also contains files predating the formation of IUFA pertaining to flight attendants’ concerns within TWU.

3.0 linear feet; (3 boxes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331919

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Transport Workers' Union of America

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Much of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) history centers around the fiery figure of Michael Quill, President of the TWU from 1935 to 1966. Quill, born in Kilgarven, Ireland in 1905, started with the IRT subway as a ticket taker. It was only with the financial support of the Communist Party that Quill, together with Maurice Forge, Austin Hogan and Harry Sacher, was able to lead a successful organizing drive among New York City transit workers beginning in 1934. With Quill as President, the TWU o...

Hesse, Star D.

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Independent Union of Flight Attendants.

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In the mid-1970s, flight attendants at Pan American Airways (PAA) became dissatisfied with both their working conditions and their representation by the Transport Workers Union of America. In 1976, the flight attendants voted to decertify the TWU and form a new union, the Independent Union of Flight Attendants. Mary Ellen King served as the union's first president, and Alice Flynn as its vice president. Star Hesse, a flight attendant, got involved with IUFA in the late 1970s and bec...

Pan American World Airways, inc.

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