Breeze Airways
Publicly reported developments related to organizing, certification, and first contract bargaining at Breeze.
📌 First Contract Negotiations — Early Stage
Breeze is in a first contract environment following a successful union representation election and certification. Public union communications describe member engagement and negotiation-preparation activity typical of first-contract campaigns.
As of this posting, CrewSignal has not identified a publicly posted full-contract tentative agreement (TA), ratification schedule, or a comprehensive bargaining calendar published by the parties.
🗂️ Organizing & Representation Milestones (Publicly Reported)
Because this is a first contract situation, certain organizing and representation milestones are publicly observable (campaign launch, NMB filing, election, certification) even when bargaining details and timelines are not. The items below reflect procedural developments only and do not imply bargaining outcomes or forecasts.
- Organizing campaign announced: Flight attendants announced an organizing campaign with AFA-CWA on January 9, 2024.
- Representation application filed (NMB): AFA-CWA filed for a representation election on January 22, 2024, invoking the NMB’s services under the Railway Labor Act.
- Election certified / certification issued: The NMB issued a certification on May 8, 2024 (Case No. R-7624), certifying AFA-CWA as the representative.
- Vote margin publicly reported: Union communications report a 76.3% vote in favor of representation (certified by the NMB on May 7, 2024).
- Campaign pace (publicly described): Public union statements describe the campaign as unusually rapid, with the election filing occurring about two weeks after the campaign went public.
Note on organizing costs: CrewSignal has not identified a carrier-specific public disclosure that itemizes the costs of the Breeze organizing campaign (e.g., “money spent”) as a standalone figure.
🧭 First Contract Bargaining Process (Context)
First contracts commonly take extended time because the parties must build an entire agreement from the ground up (recognition, scope, scheduling/work rules, compensation, benefits, grievance/arbitration, and union rights), rather than modifying an already-amendable agreement.
Public Breeze AFA communications reflect early first-contract steps such as member surveys, committee formation, and negotiation training, which typically precede or run alongside initial proposal exchange and section-by-section bargaining.
🗂️ First Contract Bargaining Milestones (Publicly Reported)
The milestones below are limited to items explicitly described in public union communications. They are included to document process visibility and do not imply a predicted endpoint.
- Member priorities survey launched: A public update (dated May 6, 2024) describes a preliminary negotiations survey as an early step toward first contract bargaining.
- Negotiations survey + training described: A public update (dated June 11, 2024) describes an official negotiations survey and negotiator/officer training following confirmation of the negotiating committee.
- Status tracking published: Breeze AFA maintains a public “Negotiations Status Chart” page (content and cadence may change over time).
🔎 Current Status Summary
- Contract type: First collective bargaining agreement
- Representation: AFA-CWA (NMB certification issued May 8, 2024; Case R-7624)
- Formal mediation docket: Not publicly posted in a centralized, carrier-specific docket (as of this posting)
- Tentative agreement: No full-contract TA publicly reported
- Public signals: Union updates describe survey-driven preparation and negotiation committee development
Sources (Public)
- AFA-CWA — Organizing campaign announcement (Jan 9, 2024): afacwa.org
- AFA-CWA — Filed for union election (Jan 22, 2024): afacwa.org
- NMB — Certification (Case R-7624, May 8, 2024): PDF
- Breeze AFA — Vote result announcement (May 7, 2024): breezeafa.org
- CWA — Organizing update (May 9, 2024): cwa-union.org
- Breeze AFA — Preliminary negotiations survey (May 6, 2024): breezeafa.org
- Breeze AFA — Council officers / negotiations survey & training context (Jun 11, 2024): breezeafa.org
- Breeze AFA — Negotiations status chart: breezeafa.org