Abigail Freytes
MCO Flight Attendant

I felt in love with my job since the first day and I consider myself a hard worker. I do my job with love. I wear my JetBlue flight attendant uniform with pride, I love going to work and it doesn't matter what happened every day I do my job with the same passion.

I expect to receive the same from the company that I work for, but it does not always work out that way. For that reason we need a union, to get a better place to work, to get the compensation that we deserve for the work that we do that grows steadily every day. JetBlue expects a lot from us, we also expects a lot from JetBlue. We need the JetBlue values but in the RIGHT meaning SAFETY, CARING, INTEGRITY, FUN AND PASSION. We need what JetBlue is always talking about "BRINGING HUMANITY BACK TO TRAVEL" we need "HUMANITY WITH JETBLUE EMPLOYEES"

For that reason sign your TWU card TODAY!!!!

Leslie Disbrow
FLL flight attendant

“I want better working conditions, a legally-binding contract, and representation. Solidarity is important to protect our profession. Let’s take back our jumpseat from management’s mistakes.”

Kate Kelly
JFK flight attendant

“Being an ‘at will employee’ just does not work for me. The company can terminate me for almost any or no reason at all. I depend on this job now to raise my two kids, and I think I deserve a little more job security than what I have at JetBlue. This ‘at will’ rule is simply unfair.“It is time for agreed-upon work rules and a fair contract. It will make our airline better for all. We should not lower our standards and settle for less.”

Kemar M. Jackson
BOS flight attendant

"I would love to have a union to ensure my future here at JetBlue.”

Carlton Upshaw
FLL flight attendant

“When I started at JetBlue, our values were fully in place. They have consistently deteriorated over the years. With a contract in place and everything in black and white, we can start rebuilding our values together.”

Bert Hunter
FLL flight attendant

“I love my job, and I want JetBlue to do well. But being afraid of what the management will do to me if I get a bad letter from an irate customer or even a coworker who feels I’m not doing my job well. Having a union means having real representation if I get called for a meeting with management, and if JetBlue is ever in a merger or acquisition situation, I want a union contract with strong scope language to protect me.”

Carlos Boscan
FLL flight attendant

“Due to our wonderful product and network expansion JetBlue is experiencing, we must realize that we are no longer a little airline. A union will help us work together with management to ensure a better future for JetBlue flight attendants.”

Michael Zuyus
JFK flight attendant

Ask questions. Our volunteer organizers will be happy to speak with you. If we don’t know the answer right away, we will get it for you. Engage jumpseaters from other airlines. Ask if they have worked with a union before—which one, and for which carrier? Ask how they feel about the TWU and Southwest Airlines.
 

• Sign a TWU authorization card.
• Wear a pin. Don’t have one? Just ask!
• Become a Card Carrier. Engage in conversation with as many crewmembers as possible. Educate yourself on all the issues, hand out literature, and answer questions. Become the expert!
• Direct your colleagues to www.twub6.org. Ask them to provide their contact information and their main concerns and issues.
• Put a TWU tag on your bags. Don’t have one? Just ask!
• Put your face on our campaign! Upload your photo and quote here on our website. America’s favorite flight attendants should have an industry-leading contract. Period.

Danny Carino
MCO flight attendant

“I believe collective bargaining ensures job security, equal pay for equal work, and holds the company accountable to their employees.”

Hope Daniels
BOS flight attendant

“To protect our future, our careers, and our values.”

Kelley Whisman
BOS flight attendant

“I want a union to ensure my future here with JetBlue is strong. I want to be heard about my concerns, and I want to have work rules in black and white.”

James Holcomb III
JFK flight attendant

“I have been on a committee, and tried to make changes. But when leadership says no, it’s done. With a union, we would stand toe-to-toe with Vicki. Our voice would have to be heard. This would also cut all the gray areas during IROPs, etc. It would give us enforceable work rules, comparable PTO, PTS, and vacation. We can do all of this and maintain our culture. If leadership cares about us as much as they say, then they will being willing to work with our union.”

Barry Eugene “Gene” Graham
JFK flight attendant

“I love JetBlue, but I work for corporate America; therefore, I am not employed by a family business where a handshake and a promise would be sufficient. My airline is a business; its priorities are the shareholders, Board of Directors, and our customers. Where do I stand as an at-will employee? Our CEO stated in his October 4, 2010 ‘Jet To The Point’ message that ‘we are a public company, and we have the fiduciary responsibility to do what is in the best interest of our shareholders.’“JetBlue boasts about direct relationships, yet rule changes via emails that lack input from crewmembers have become standard. Furthermore, work rules are not fairly applied. A union is both my voice and my vote for equality, ensuring mutual accountability.“When our present CEO decides to leave or is replaced, will future leaders maintain our values? I want work rules in place before major business decisions occur that leave us, the flight attendants, unprotected. No airline has ever remained a single carrier, and if they did, they are no longer flying. We are partially owned by Lufthansa.
Our union is all of us, and we deserve the best for our award-winning work. We are not a third-party.”

Lyana Rodriguez
JFK flight attendant

“I want a secure future at JetBlue. We need firm work rules and better pay. I’m tired of working under gray work guidelines that seem to be changing often lately (and not for the better). I don’t want to work a four-day trip at forty hours of duty, with 26 hours of pay ever again! Sign a union authorization card, and let your voice be heard. We are the face of the company, and we deserve better treatment.”

Jerry Paredes

MCO flight attendant “Over the last few years, our company has proven that it can no longer juggle its fiduciary responsibilities to its shareholders, while attending to the issues that are important to us. It is time to allow our company to continue to fulfill its business responsibilities, while we make our own business decision to unionize for the purpose of ensuring that our pay, benefits, and work rules are free from interference. Only a legally-binding collective bargaining agreement can give us this. “With the election of our own autonomous union, we will bring true democracy into our workplace"

John Denissen
LGB flight attendant

“It’s about self respect. The company has proven time and time again that we will never get better pay or better productivity unless we demand it. In fact, pay and productivity are stuck (or moving backward). How can anyone feel the ‘committees’ are working at all? I’m tired of it! I love my colleagues and some of the supervisors are wonderful! However, I feel like management would prefer for us to resign rather than to move up the pay scale or ever get a raise (even Dave Barger said as much in his state of the airline address), and I’ve put in too much time, blood, sweat, and tears to give up that easily! I want to ‘live the dream!’ I want to be able to drop-and-swap and to get paid a fair wage. The company has $1.5 billion in the bank according to Yahoo! Finance, and still we get five hour/day productivity, and no meaningful raise? We will continue to be poverty cases until we organize! How much do they need to rake in before they take care of those nice front-line workers called flight attendants (and rampers, gate agents, and provo.) Together with TWU, we rise!”