
President of flight attendants union urges extension of face mask mandate
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Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA,) pushed for the PPE during a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation hearing in Washington, D.C.
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA,) pushed for the PPE during a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation hearing in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The AFA represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants employed across 17 airlines, and the head of the union is calling for the mask mandate to be extended through at least September, as commercial air travel begins to pick back up. "We are still in the middle of the crisis,'' Nelson said of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, per USA Today. "I do think it's important that we recognize that and stay the course here with the mask policies, with all of our diligence [and] with the efforts to get the vaccine out to everyone.''More Related News