Sun Country Flight Attendants to Picket in Minneapolis

Flight Attendants Demand Fair Contract, Vote by 99 Percent to Authorize Strike

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(MINNEAPOLIS) – On Friday, November 15 [today], Sun Country flight attendants represented by Teamsters Local 120 will engage in an informational picket at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to demand the carrier come to terms on a fair contract or face a potential nationwide strike. Sun Country flight attendants voted by an overwhelming 99 percent to authorize a strike against the company.

“Teamsters flight attendants at Sun Country have had to go through a global pandemic and record-setting inflation, all without a raise in pay,” said Tom Erickson, President of Local 120 and Teamsters Central Region International Vice President. “If Sun Country doesn’t want to listen to us at the bargaining table, we will be forced to take action. We will not rest until Sun Country flight attendants get the contract they deserve.”

In May 2023, Sun Country Teamsters voted to reject a tentative agreement with the carrier due to substandard compensation and work rules. Since December 2023, negotiations have taken place under the supervision of the National Mediation Board.


WHO: Rank-and-file Sun Country flight attendants

WHEN: Friday, November 15

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 pm CST

WHERE: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Outside Terminal 2

6040 28th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55450




SOURCETeamsters Local 120
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The Teamsters are America’s largest, most diverse union. In 1903, the Teamsters started as a merger of the two leading team driver associations. These drivers were the backbone of America’s robust economic growth, but they needed to organize to wrest their fair share from greedy corporations. Today, the union’s task is exactly the same. The Teamsters are known as the champion of freight drivers and warehouse workers, but have organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector. Our 1.3 million members are public defenders in Minnesota; vegetable workers in California; sanitation workers in New York; brewers in St. Louis; newspaper workers in Seattle; construction workers in Las Vegas; zoo keepers in Pennsylvania; health care workers in Rhode Island; bakery workers in Maine; airline pilots, secretaries and police officers. Name the occupation and chances are we represent those workers somewhere. There are nearly 1,900 Teamster affiliates throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

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