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Financial Transparency & LM Reporting

Parent-union money flow, sector-level financial reporting, and carrier-by-carrier MEC and LEC filing directories.

Financial Disclosures

CWA-AFA’s finances must be read in layers. The parent CWA filing captures the upstream dues base, the sector filing captures sector-level deployment and redistribution, and the MEC / LEC filings show how money reaches the airline and local representation layers.

This page keeps those layers in one place. The top sections explain the money flow and identify the most important sector-level financial signals. The carrier directory below links to the airline-level MEC and LEC filings that show how representation is funded on the ground.

How the Money Flow Works

CWA-AFA is not a single-filer financial structure. The parent CWA books the main dues base, the sector books deployment and redistribution, and airline MECs and LECs show how money reaches the member-facing representation layer.

The final value-per-dues-dollar analysis depends on reading all three layers together and removing inter-affiliate double counting.

Important Reporting Limitation: Employer-Paid Release Time

Public LM filings do not always capture the full economic value associated with union office. In airline unions, officers and representatives may perform union business while remaining on company payroll, or they may be compensated through arrangements that are only partly visible on union financial reports.

In the United filings, some of this activity appears to be visible through entries labeled “REIMBURSE LOCAL FOR FPL WAGES” and “FPL ADMIN FEES”. Preserve the filing terminology unless and until the underlying agreement is separately verified.

DOL guidance says lost time paid by the union should be reported on LM forms, including Schedule 11 or 12, Column D on Form LM-2. But employer-paid “union leave” and “no-docking” arrangements may leave little or no direct trail on the union’s LM report when the union does not reimburse the employer.

Parent CWA Filings

Because the sector’s own filing says that cash and dues are reported on the parent CWA LM-2, readers should review the parent CWA filings alongside the sector filings below.

CWA-AFA Sector Filings

The sector filings are the clearest public record of how CWA-AFA itself spends money, funds airline affiliates, and supports sector-wide operations. They should always be read together with the parent CWA filings above.

The sector filing is also the best place to trace funding sent to airline MECs and LECs.

Carrier-Level Financial Filing Directory

This is the airline-by-airline MEC and LEC filing directory. Each carrier subsection separates three different things: the full carrier report, the carrier-tagged sector funding lines visibly itemized in the CWA-AFA sector LM-2, and the verified stand-alone MEC / LEC filings that have been independently surfaced in this review. That structure makes it easier to see what is publicly visible at the sector level, what is actually filed at the affiliate level, and where the gaps remain.

Interpretation note: the carrier-level sector funding snapshot below measures only carrier-tagged affiliate funding lines visibly itemized in the CWA-AFA sector LM-2. It is not a measure of total dues paid by a carrier group or of total sector spending attributable to that property.

Filing-availability note: a visible carrier-tagged sector funding line does not by itself prove that a separate stand-alone MEC or LEC annual report has been independently surfaced here for that same year.

Funding-method note: CWA-AFA’s governing documents use formula-based LEC and MEC budgeting, but annual Board budget actions can waive or adjust the default formulas. Read carrier funding lines as visible public allocations, not as proof of one unchanged per-capita formula in every year.

Bargaining service is not always fully visible inside carrier LM filings alone. For a detailed explanation of how CWA-AFA negotiating committees are chosen, how staff negotiators are assigned, and where compensation appears in public reporting, see How CWA-AFA Negotiating Committees and Staff Negotiators Work.

Air Wisconsin

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

MEC Filing Availability

LEC Filing Availability

LEC 24003

LEC 24029

Alaska Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

MEC Filing Availability

LEC Filing Availability

LEC 27019

LEC 27030

LEC 27039

LEC 29015

LEC 29018

LEC 29035

ATI

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 22002

Avelo

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 29050

Breeze Airways

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 27032

Eastern Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

Endeavor Air

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 21045

LEC 24046

LEC 27048

LEC 27049

Envoy Air

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 23059

LEC 24051

LEC 26052

Frontier Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 23084

LEC 23087

LEC 24086

LEC 29079

LEC 29081

GoJet Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 26031

Hawaiian Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 29043

LEC 29047

Horizon Air

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 27016

LEC 27017

Mesa Air Group

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 24088

LEC 26044

LEC 27056

Norse Atlantic Airways

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 22001

Omni Air International

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 26072

Piedmont Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 22061

PSA Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 23075

LEC 27054

LEC 27057

Spirit Airlines

Full Carrier Report

Carrier-Level Sector Funding Snapshot

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 23037

LEC 23078

LEC 24076

LEC 24077

LEC 26074

LEC 29073

United Airlines

Full Carrier Report

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.

Verified Stand-Alone MEC Filing Availability

Verified Stand-Alone LEC Filing Availability

LEC 21006

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

Additional MEC / LEC Filing Visibility

These additional stand-alone CWA-AFA affiliate filings strengthen the carrier-level map beyond the core filing directory above. They do not create a complete system-wide carrier ledger, but they do expand the number of verified MEC / LEC examples that readers can review directly.

These additional filings improve carrier-level visibility, but they do not eliminate the structural limitation noted throughout this page: the national and sector filings still do not function as a simple carrier-by-carrier dues ledger.

FY2025 Sector Funding-to-Affiliate Lines

Even where a stand-alone MEC or LEC annual report has not yet been added to this page, the FY2025 CWA-AFA national filing surfaces additional affiliate visibility through Schedule 14 funding-to-affiliate lines. These entries should be read as sector funding signals, not as substitutes for separate affiliate annual reports.

This is useful for mapping where sector money is visibly going, but it is still not the same thing as a fully surfaced carrier-level ledger with matched MEC and LEC filings for every represented airline.

Organizing and Non-Represented Activity

Official IAM, CWA-AFA, and Teamsters materials confirm that Delta is being organized through a coordinated coalition campaign rather than through a represented-airline MEC / LEC structure. Public materials reviewed here identify the labor split — CWA-AFA for flight attendants, IAM for ramp, cargo, and tower workers, and the Teamsters for technicians and related crafts — but do not publicly quantify how coalition costs are allocated among the unions.

Legacy and Cross-Union Reimbursements