United Airlines · CWA-AFA Carrier Financial Report

Quick Read

Visible structure: United is the most financially significant CWA-AFA carrier and the most complex one to map cleanly, because the public record shows a large carrier-level MEC, major local structures, and visible airline-linked release-time reimbursement arrangements.
Most recent verified standalone carrier filing signal: United MEC LM-2 (FY ending 05/31/2024) reports 25,692 members, $4,488,590 in total receipts, and $4,488,590 in total disbursements.
Most recent verified standalone local filing signal: United LEC 21006 Newark LM-2 (FY ending 05/31/2025) reports 5,292 members, $1,046,169 in total receipts, and $1,046,169 in total disbursements.
Bottom line: United already provides one of the strongest public filing trails in the entire CWA-AFA structure, but the clearest money-flow story is visible through the verified carrier filing, the Newark local filing, and the identified affiliate-funding and airline-reimbursement channels.

Filing Map

United has to be read in layers. Parent CWA is the upstream dues layer. The CWA-AFA sector LM-2 is the broad affiliate-funding layer. The United MEC LM-2 and the Newark LEC 21006 LM-2 show that substantial carrier- and local-level money flow is also visible directly on the DOL record.

Parent CWA filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.
CWA-AFA sector filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.

Verified Standalone Filing Signals

United MEC: United MEC LM-2 (FY ending 05/31/2024). The filing reports 25,692 members, $4,488,590 in total receipts, and $4,488,590 in total disbursements.
United local: LEC 21006 Newark LM-2 (FY ending 05/31/2025). The filing reports 5,292 members, $1,046,169 in total receipts, and $1,046,169 in total disbursements.

Verified Funding Channels

Newark LEC 21006’s FY ending 05/31/2025 LM-2 shows that the local’s visible funding is not coming from dues booked directly at the local level. The filing reports $0 in dues and agency fees, $0 in per capita tax, and $1,046,169 in total other receipts.

Affiliate funding from the union structure: $654,048 from Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, labeled “FUNDING FROM AFFLIATE FYE 2025.”
Airline reimbursement: $392,105 from United Airlines, labeled “REIMBURSE LOCAL FOR FPL WAGES.”
Other receipts: $16.

Those three visible sources reconcile to the local’s reported $1,046,169 in total receipts. On the disbursement side, the same local filing also shows $237,179 in transactions with United Airlines labeled “FPL ADMIN FEES.”

This is why United should not be reduced to a simple sector-line funding map. At least for Newark, the local’s own LM-2 is more revealing than a partial council-allocation extraction from the sector filing.

Most Important Verified Carrier-Level Signal

The verified United MEC LM-2 for FY ending 05/31/2024 reports $3,487,637 in representational activities and $775,884 in union administration. It also shows $3,432,080 in other receipts from Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which makes United one of the clearest places to see upstream-to-carrier funding flowing through the CWA-AFA structure.

Most Important Verified Local-Level Signal

The verified Newark LEC 21006 LM-2 for FY ending 05/31/2025 reports $668,334 in representational activities and $377,835 in union administration, showing that substantial member-facing work is visibly funded at the local level as well.

Release-Time and Airline-Linked Reimbursement Visibility

United is one of the few carriers where the public record makes release-time style structures unusually visible. The Newark LEC 21006 LM-2 reports $392,105 in entries labeled REIMBURSE LOCAL FOR FPL WAGES and $237,179 in entries labeled FPL ADMIN FEES.

Those filing labels should be preserved as written unless and until the underlying arrangements are independently verified in more detail.

Current Bargaining Visibility

United’s current bargaining process is also highly visible. Tentative Agreement Two was announced on March 26, 2026, and the United MEC then carried the resolution unanimously on April 2, 2026 to move forward in the ratification process.

For a deeper 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 .

Interpretive Caution

United is the most financially significant and structurally complex CWA-AFA property. The most defensible first-pass approach is to show the strongest verified filing signals and the local funding channels that can be directly reconciled on the Newark LM-2, rather than force a premature full council-allocation rollup.