Legislation That Impacts You

Flight Attendant Fatigue Report as Delivered to Congress

Part 1

Part 2

Conclusion and Recommendations

Update- the study was finally released to congress on July 7th thanks to the pressure placed on the FAA by IAM&AW, AFL-CIO represented Continental and ExpressJet Flight Attendants. Thank you to the Continental and ExpressJet Flight Attendants from Local 2339C and from Local 2339N who attended the sleep in and sat side by side with their brothers and sisters from United's Flight Attendant Union, The Communication Workers of America, AFA, AFL-CIO. Thank you to Dave Talbot, Nicole Washington, Lauren Herold, and Peter Greenberg (EWR Local 2339N) for your volunteerism and dedication.

At the request and funding from the FAA, the CDC initiated research studies on exposures and health outcomes in commercial flight crews. United Airlines Flight attendants participated in the study.

These studies addressed some of the following:

· Cabin ventilation

· Cabin air quality

· Factors related to job stress among flight attendants

· Adverse reproductive health effects

· Cancer mortality and incidence

· Respiratory symptoms

*Several of these studies were initiated due to a 1994 Congressional mandate (Public Law 103-305, Section 304) that required the FAA to establish a program to address air quality issues in aircraft including the issue of disease transmission.

On June 7^th 2006, The Communications Workers of America, AFA staged a Sleep-In on the doorstep of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to bring the flight attendant’s message home to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey & demand that the Federal Aviation Administration release the long-awaited report and study on fatigue. Volunteers from The IAM&AW Cleveland participated in the sleep-in; please thank EJ Flight Attendants Dave Talbot and Nicole Washington for spending the night out in the rain representing you and the IAM. Also please thank Lauren Herold who was able to spend some time there as well.

Findings from the initial study and report were due back to Congress one year ago but the FAA continues to make excuses for not releasing the report. Even Congress has been stonewalled in their efforts to see the report.

Please visit the following websites:

http://www.cdc.gov/washington/testimony/ws060503.htm

I urge you to read more about the Testimony of John Howard, M.D. Director, and CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Before the Subcommittee on Aviation Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure United States House of Representatives.

The Flight Crew Research Program at NIOSH

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flightcrew/

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