United Airlines flight attendants fight over staffing cuts

More than 25,000 United Airlines flight attendants say the battle is not over yet to get management at the carrier to reverse a decision announced Monday to cut flight attendant staffing on international flights operated on the carrier’s fleet of wide-body Boeing 787 Dreamliners and narrow-body Boeing 757 aircraft. Though the decision to drop 1 flight attendant from on-board staffing seemed sudden when announced Monday, sources at the Association of Flight Attendants said talks about United international cabin staffing were going on behind the scenes for months. As United flight attendants plan their next move to the get the cuts reversed, they do not have any clear-cut language in their current contract with the company that would provide leverage. <br/>