Transport Workers Union and Association of Flight Attendants collection, 1988-2001, [bulk 1991-2001].

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Transport Workers Union and Association of Flight Attendants collection, 1988-2001, [bulk 1991-2001].

The collection consists primarily of organizing materials from the TWU/AFA and counter-organizing materials from Delta. These materials include mailings, correspondence (letters and e-mail), news printouts, newspaper clippings, and artifacts (stickers, etc.) There are also a number of TWU and AFA publications (ie, magazines) as well as Delta publications (both employees and customer related).

3 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7634601

Georgia State University

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Delta Air Lines

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Delta Airlines began in Macon, Georgia in 1924 as a crop dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1925 and soon had the largest privately owned aircraft fleet in the world. In 1928 the company was renamed Delta Air Service. Passenger operations began in 1929, and in 1934, the company secured a contract to deliver mail on a southern route that stretched from Texas to South Carolina. In 1941, the company established its corporate headquarters in Atlanta...

Transport Workers Union

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The Transport Workers Union (TWU) was founded in 1934. It represents workers in several different transportation and service industries. The TWU is affilliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). The TWU is organized on the international, industrial and local levels. The Association of Flight Attendants (AFL-CIO) began as the Airline Stewardesses Association on August 22, 1943. After severa...

Association of Flight Attendants (U.S.)

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The Association of Flight Attendants was originally affiliated with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) as the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association. In 1973 the association became independant of the ALPA and formally became the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). From the description of Association of Flight Attendants Dallas records, 1952-1980, (bulk 1968-1979). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320800 ...