American Airlines flight attendant leader agrees to step down early

For the second time in 2.5 years, the board of the union representing American Airlines flight attendants has pushed out its president. Bob Ross resigned Friday as president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, 2 years into a 4-year term. Sources said Ross was pushed out after losing the backing of the majority of the union’s 14 directors. They are elected by members of the domiciles they represent, while the president is elected nationally. Nena Martin, the incumbent vice president, was selected to be interim president. In 2015, the board pushed out Laura Glading, an influential president who played a key role in enabling the American-US Airways merger, in an unsightly sequence. Facing board opposition, Glading agreed to retire in December. But the board forced her to retire even sooner, in October. <br/>