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Funding, dues and parent services

Current dues, the merger-service question, sector financial evidence and the carrier filing directory.

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Funding, services and the member-benefit question

What benefit did the 2003–2004 CWA merger bring to AFA, and which legal, financial, research or advisory services can be traced to work CWA supplied and the entity that paid? Specific services and support are documented. Their complete cost, reimbursement and incremental value remain unresolved.

This page follows current dues, parent services, two-way transactions, sector statements and the carrier directory. The merger overview separates promises from documented assistance.

Current dues and the adopted 2026 action

The Board adopted an amended dues and budget action on March 11, 2026. It directs $65.36 monthly dues beginning FY2026–27, June 1, 2026. Historical $50 entries below remain descriptions of their filing periods.

Adopted 2026 dues and surplus action
ProvisionAdopted treatment
Monthly dues$65.36 from FY2026–27.
FY2026–27 rebateEach MEC may make the specified one-time request for a rebate equivalent to $10.24 per member per month, distributed annually to dues-paying members in good standing.
FY2027–28 rebateThe action also specifies $5.12 per member per month on the same request/eligibility basis, with annual distribution.
Prior-year surplus$7,268,816 may be used as needed; the remainder is credited to reserve. This is authority to use existing sector resources, not proof of actual spending or a new parent grant.

The original proposal began at $55.12 with a three-year phase-in. The adopted action instead implements the full rate with conditional annual rebates. A rebate is not an automatic monthly discount. The final amended detailed budget, MEC requests, payments and actual surplus use were not recovered in this review.

Sources: Adopted amended action, pp1–2; original proposal, p2; Secretary-Treasurer report, p1.

How the reporting entities fit together

Read parent CWA, CWA-AFA sector and separately identified council reports for the same period. A transfer can appear as an outflow for one entity and a receipt for another; adding them without elimination counts the same funds twice.

Reporting levels and limits
LevelWhat to identifyWhat the amount does not establish
Parent CWA — file 000-188Dues routing, parent programs/staff, service charges, funds and sector-related entries.That every sector-related expense is additional unreimbursed subsidy.
CWA-AFA sector — file 000-376Sector specialists, affiliate funding, council distributions, overhead and reserves.A complete independent member-dues ledger or a measured outcome for every dollar.
MEC / LEC filersActual file number, form, period, receipts, outlays and council identity.That each internal council has a separate report under the same identifier.
Separate funds and counterpartiesWorking Voices, benefit plans, charities and grant programs.That organizations sharing a CWA-AFA name are one accounting entity.

Reconciliation identifies ultimate cost. Merger benefit also requires delivered services, outcomes, affected members and a defensible standalone-cost comparison. Removing duplicate transfers alone cannot establish value per dues dollar.

Sources: sector Schedule 14, p41; sector Schedule 18, p72; budget/consolidated scope, p8.

Parent services and unresolved cost attribution

SIF 726 supplies a specific answer to the service question. CWA’s 2025 Defense Fund Oversight Committee report identifies a funded corporate campaign researcher supporting CWA-AFA bargaining and organizing. It describes work concerning United, Delta and regional boarding pay. Its assessment of bargaining impact is the union’s own; the public summary gives no project budget, actual cost, named researcher, hours or reimbursement ledger.

Separately, parent FY2024 Schedule 12 reports Tiffany Loftin, CWA-AFA Senior Campaign Lead, with $131,191 gross salary and $14,977 official-business disbursements: $146,168 in total. The row is entirely allocated to representation. It does not establish a link to SIF 726 or that the parent ultimately absorbed the whole cost. The saved parent print stops inside Schedule 15; this staff row is fully visible.

Shared services also have a cost side. The 2023 CWA Finance Committee described an agreement with CWA-AFA that increased the parent’s FY2023–24 budget other income by $1 million for shared services. This is budgeted parent revenue, not a reconciled receipt. The 2024 committee then described reviewing shared expenditures with sector Secretary-Treasurer Dante Harris.

The parent’s $1 million shared-services budget addition and the sector’s separate $1 million of CWA contribution receipts run in opposite directions and have different descriptions. Matching amounts do not establish the same transaction, an offset or net merger value.

Sources: 2025 DFOC report, pp4 and 8; parent FY2024 Schedule 12, p50; 2023 proceedings, p118; 2024 Finance Committee, p2.

Parent IRS expense classification — not a transfer or benefit valuation
ClassificationFYE2023FYE2024FYE2025
AFA MEC ADMIN$11,179,506$10,771,202$12,410,368

These expense labels are reconciliation targets, not established cash transfers, the whole sector budget or delivered services at those amounts. Charity grants and CWA Working Voices remain separate from operating support.

Sources: Parent financial analysis and original sources; parent IRS series CSV.

FY2024: the two-way CWA trail

FY2024 CWA-named receipts and disbursements
DirectionReported purposeAmountSchedule / physical page
CWA → sectorAffiliate funding; May 31, 2024$26,166,63314 / PDF p41
CWA → sectorFour contributions of $250,000$1,000,00014 / PDF p41
Sector → CWANonitemized representation$5,51515 / PDF p60
Sector → CWADonation; September 30, 2023$18,56017 / PDF p69
Sector → CWATwelve rent payments of $22,119$265,42818 / PDF p72
Sector → CWAUnspent income transferred to reserve; May 31, 2024$1,572,84818 / PDF p72
Sector → CWANonitemized overhead$9918 / PDF p72
Sector → CWAMembership-department postage$41,50319 / PDF p75
Sector → CWAMembership-department printing$5,60419 / PDF p75
Sector → CWANonitemized administration$36,70619 / PDF p75

CWA-named receipts total $27,166,633; outgoing blocks total $1,946,263. These disclosure subtotals mix purposes. Affiliate funding may include routed dues; rent, donations, administration and reserves must be separated before evaluating cost.

The four contribution dates are October 31 and November 30, 2023, and February 29 and May 31, 2024. Their labels do not supply grant restrictions, a project link or the matching parent entry.

The $1,572,848 reserve transfer does not establish loss of sector beneficial ownership. Obtain the agreement, restrictions and balances.

CWA Working Voices is separately named: the sector received a $75,000 professional-fee refund on May 31, 2024 and paid a $15,000 donation on December 14, 2023. No underlying legal-service purpose or identity with parent CWA is inferred.

Sources: receipts, p41; donations, p69; administration, p75; selected blocks and transactions.

FY2024 financial position and cash controls

FY2024 financial position
Balance-sheet itemOpeningClosing
Cash$688,958$10,000
U.S. Treasury securities$513,673$1,822,146
Investments (separate from U.S. Treasury securities)$8,427,806$8,654,709
Other assets$17,624$21,578
Total assets$9,648,061$10,508,433
Total liabilities$1,318,406$1,444,406
Net assets$8,329,655$9,064,027

Cash reconciles: $688,958 opening cash + $28,334,445 receipts − $29,013,403 disbursements = $10,000 closing cash. Withheld and disbursed payroll deductions each total $92,343, so the net withholding adjustment is zero; Item 67c is displayed blank.

Treasury securities plus separately reported investments rose by $1,535,376 to $10,476,855. Net assets increased $734,372 (8.82%). The $10,000 cash balance alone does not establish insolvency or unrestricted access to those investments.

Schedule 10 labels all $1,444,406 ending liabilities as amounts held for strike funds. That identifies a fund-holding obligation rather than bank borrowing or overdue vendor debt. Fund restrictions and withdrawal terms still need to be established.

Statement B includes $1,587,624 net investment purchases. Schedules 3–4 exclude $9,697,071 of reinvestments on both sides. Cash disbursements, changes in net assets and operating results are different measures; gross investment trades must not be added again to the reported totals.

Sources: Statement A, p3; Statement B, p4; investment sales, p7; purchases, p8; strike-fund liabilities, p14.

FY2024 opening figures corroborate the listed FY2023 closing balances, not FY2023 annual cash flows. Full Statement A and Statement B distinguish reported zeroes from blank cells.

Legal, financial and advisory services in sector accounts

Five named FY2024 sector law-firm blocks total $592,417, including nonitemized remainders. This selected subtotal is not the whole legal function or proof of additional parent subsidy. Legal research, consultants, investment fees and specialist staff are separately identifiable.

The sector reports General Counsel Joseph Burns ($209,188), Financial Economist Theresa O’Donnal ($135,684) and Finance Director Sherrie Thompson ($150,079), including displayed compensation and business expenses. These amounts already enter functional totals.

Five law firms and exact pages · Selected blocks and nonitemized amounts · Sector/parent staff detail

Sources: law-firm blocks, pp59–66; sector staff, pp31, 36 and 38.

Salary, lost time and release-time reporting

A salary line is one component of compensation reporting. Union-paid lost time, employer payments later reimbursed by a union, allowances and expenses need to be distinguished. A zero salary line does not establish the absence of all economic support.

For the LM-2 schedules used in these historical reports, DOL places officers’ lost-time payments in Schedule 11, Column D, and employee lost-time payments in Schedule 12, Column D. DOL also discusses employer payment followed by union reimbursement.

Employer-paid leave requires the agreement, payroll and reimbursement records to determine the economic payer. The union return alone does not quantify every arrangement. Retained United material includes REIMBURSE LOCAL FOR FPL WAGES and FPL ADMIN FEES; those labels or a low salary do not establish a particular leave arrangement.

Sources: DOL: Union Lost Time Payments, reporting instructions; DOL October 2004 LM-2 FAQ: employer payment and reimbursement; dated United entry.

Accounting services and reporting visibility

The January 2026 Finance Committee says data were initially limited while CWA’s Business Central implementation stabilized. The Secretary-Treasurer describes delays, gaps and inconsistencies complicating budget review and requiring reconciliation.

The Secretary-Treasurer also describes FY2025–26 budgeting with planned reserves and expenses exceeding revenue in actuals to date. These are leadership/committee accounts, not independently verified audit findings or final annual results. Seek corrected reports, reconciliations, implementation cost allocations and audit follow-up.

Sources: Finance Committee, p2; Secretary-Treasurer, pp1–2.

Sector filings and historical annual detail

The annual detail retains the earlier financial series. Read each year with its source status. A figure kept for historical continuity has not necessarily been reverified from a newly acquired filing.

Sector annual financial source coverage
Fiscal periodOfficial source / preserved copyWhat this review establishes
FY2023
June 1, 2022–May 31, 2023
Sector report 871851Prior annual figures retained. FY2024 opening balances corroborate the listed FY2023 closing balances. FY2023 flows, membership and detailed schedules were not reverified from the original body.
FY2024
June 1, 2023–May 31, 2024
Sector report 896722 · Preserved 83-page PDFPreserved complete core inspected: statements, header, staff and named service/transfer blocks. Full attachments and current amendment history are not established.
FY2025
June 1, 2024–May 31, 2025
Sector report 922215Existing annual history retained. Original body not recovered in this review. Financing and incomplete asset-breakdown qualifications accompany the figures.
FY2026
June 1, 2025–May 31, 2026
Indexed sector report 945683Official indexed lead for file 000-376; body unavailable. No FY2026 financial totals are inferred. The 2026 adopted budget action is separate evidence.

Open FY2024 LM-2 statements, counterparties and staff detail · Read the preserved FY2024 PDF · Download the 111-row annual-history CSV

CWA-AFA uses federal file 000-376; parent CWA uses 000-188. The inherited FY2025 note says cash and dues are reported at parent level, but that original note was not newly recovered. FY2024 Item 36 is $0 while affiliate funding appears in Schedule 14. Read the sector report with parent and council records.

Representational activities is the filer’s functional spending category. Its amount is not a direct measure of service received, service quality or successful outcomes. Staff and named counterparty disclosures are already included in functional totals.

FY2025 Sector Analysis

Source status: prior published figures retained; original FY2025 body not recovered in this review. The asset lines are selected categories, not a complete breakdown. Borrowings and capital purchases are included in cash totals. Historical “support” wording identifies a reported counterparty amount and does not establish net parent subsidy. Dues and the next-election field describe the filing period.

Filing Header and Governance Basics

Statement A — Assets and Liabilities

Statement B — Receipts and Disbursements

Notable Schedule-Level Signals

FY2024 Sector Analysis

Source status: the preserved 83-page core was inspected. Historical dues and next-election fields are as reported for this period, not the current rate or schedule. Statement A displays some ending cells blank; Schedule 8, p12, separately totals accounts payable at $0.

Filing Header and Governance Basics

Statement A — Assets and Liabilities

Statement B — Receipts and Disbursements

Notable Schedule-Level Signals

FY2023 Sector Analysis

Source status: prior published figures retained; original FY2023 body not recovered. FY2024 opening balances corroborate the listed FY2023 closing balances. Annual cash flows, membership, dues and schedule signals remain historical transcriptions. The next-election field is a filing-time forecast.

Filing Header and Governance Basics

Statement A — Assets and Liabilities

Statement B — Receipts and Disbursements

Notable Schedule-Level Signals

Interpreting the retained FY2025 financing and asset figures

Retained FY2025 figures require financing and capital context. Total cash receipts of $39,463,382 include $9,750,000 of loans; total disbursements of $39,032,554 include $10,792,425 of investment/fixed-asset purchases. Their $430,828 difference is a cash-flow measure. It cannot be treated as operating profit or equivalent recurring revenue growth.

On those retained figures, $9,750,000 borrowed less $37,005 repaid equals $9,712,995 closing loans. That arithmetic is consistent, but the original loan and asset schedules remain outstanding.

The listed cash, Treasury securities, investments and other assets total $16,057,935, leaving $9,832,845 of the displayed $25,890,780 total outside the selected breakdown. The original statement must identify the omitted category. The residual is not a verified fixed-asset or property value, and no filing error is inferred.

Sources: FY2025 official link — original body not recovered; retained annual-history CSV.

Records that can resolve the merger-service question

Sources: SIF report-access route, p4; shared-services agreement reference, p118; adopted budget action.

Carrier-level financial filing directory

These 19 entries retain the existing carrier reports, council identifiers, dated financial snapshots and earlier links. Internal MEC/LEC structures do not automatically correspond one-for-one with separate federal filers; use the actual file number, form and period.

Reading “N/A”: inherited labels mean no separately located/verified report was established for that field in the earlier review. They do not mean zero funding, no council, noncompliance or no filing obligation. A blocked retrieval does not erase a source already held.

The crosswalk distinguishes retained original-format core reports with checked headers from other links. It does not establish all attachments, current amendments or a new carrier-by-carrier financial audit.

Download the 25-report council filing crosswalk · How CWA-AFA negotiating committees and staff negotiators work

Carrier-tagged funding snapshots cover only visibly itemized affiliate funding. They are not total dues paid by that group or all attributable sector spending. Annual budget actions can adjust governing formulas; each historical percentage retains its stated denominator.

Filing-status note: “preserved core” means a retained original-format report with a checked native header; “indexed” means an official listing without a recovered body; “not located” describes the review’s source limit. These statuses are separate from conclusions about legal filing obligations.

Air Wisconsin

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 24003 FY2024 — LM-4, file 543-726; MEC FY2024 — LM-3, file 526-740. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 24003

LEC 24029

Alaska Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: MEC FY2024 — LM-2, file 526-738. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 27019

LEC 27030

LEC 27039

LEC 29015

LEC 29018

LEC 29035

ATI

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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LEC 22002

Avelo

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 29050 FY2024 — LM-4, file 546-724. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 29050

Breeze Airways

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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LEC 27032

Eastern Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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Endeavor Air

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: MEC FY2023 — LM-3, file 541-743; MEC FY2024 — LM-3, file 541-743. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 21045

LEC 24046

LEC 27048

LEC 27049

Envoy Air

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: MEC FY2023 — LM-3, file 541-782. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 23059

LEC 24051

LEC 26052

Frontier Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 21085 FY2024 — LM-3, file 545-748; LEC 23087 FY2024 — LM-3, file 545-480; LEC 24086 FY2024 — LM-3, file 545-384; LEC 29079 FY2024 — LM-3, file 545-871; MEC FY2024 — LM-2, file 544-323. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 21085

LEC 23084

LEC 23087

LEC 24086

LEC 29079

LEC 29081

GoJet Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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LEC 26031

Hawaiian Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 29043 FY2022 — LM-3, file 526-765. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 29043

LEC 29047

Horizon Air

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: MEC FY2024 — LM-3, file 503-505; MEC FY2025 — LM-3, file 503-505. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 27016

LEC 27017

Mesa Air Group

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 24088 FY2024 — LM-3, file 544-560. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 24088

LEC 26044

LEC 27056

Norse Atlantic Airways

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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LEC 22001

Omni Air International

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 26072 FY2021 — LM-4, file 544-599. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 26072

Piedmont Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 22061 FY2025 — LM-3, file 526-717; MEC FY2025 — LM-3, file 543-513. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 22061

PSA Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: MEC FY2023 — LM-3, file 543-514; MEC FY2024 — LM-3, file 543-514. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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LEC 23075

LEC 27054

LEC 27057

Spirit Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: this carrier’s dated directory material is retained. No preserved standalone council core for this entry is established by the reviewed crosswalk. A link or “N/A” field is not a new verification of a full filing, an absence of reporting obligations, or zero funding.

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LEC 23037

LEC 23078

LEC 24076

LEC 24077

LEC 26074

LEC 29073

United Airlines

Source status through October 23, 2026: preserved original-format core report(s), with native headers checked: LEC 21006 FY2023 — LM-2, file 537-277; LEC 21006 FY2025 — LM-2, file 537-277; MEC FY2024 — LM-2, file 526-734; MEC FY2025 — LM-2, file 526-734. Attachments and current amendment history are not established. Other dated links and amounts below remain retained history unless separately identified.

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Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

The sector snapshot above includes only United-tagged affiliate funding lines independently verified in the official CWA-AFA sector LM-2s during this pass. The stand-alone LEC filings below do not, by themselves, prove that every matching LEC line was independently surfaced in each sector-year snapshot.

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LEC 21006

United LEC 21006 additional FY2025 visibility: the filing also shows $654,048 in funding from affiliate, $392,105 in United reimbursements for FPL wages, and $237,179 in FPL admin fees.

LEC 21007

LEC 21027

LEC 22021

LEC 22022

LEC 24008

LEC 24063

LEC 26042

LEC 27009

LEC 29011

LEC 29012

LEC 29014

LEC 29025

LEC 29065

Organizing and nonrepresented activity

Campaigns do not map automatically to represented-airline MEC and LEC accounts. SIF 726 documents a parent-funded research project including Delta-related work; its public summary does not allocate dollars by carrier or coalition participant.

Sources: 2025 DFOC report, p8.

Legacy and cross-union reimbursements

APFA reimbursements require their own service and reciprocal-payment evidence, distinct from CWA parent assistance.