Stewardesses Strip for Pension Awareness, Again!

Last year Connie Baker, a retired United Airlines flight attendant, after being stripped of her contracted pension organized a group of active and retired flight attendants to make a political statement to call attention to the pension crisis.

Connie and her friends did this by symbolically stripping to get public attention focused on this issue by producing the "2006 Stewardesses Stripped" calendar.

This group of stripped stews say the pension crisis is getting worse in this country so they have decided on a new "Oh Wow!" calendar for 2007.

A New Direction for Labor Political Independence and Action

Yet while our benefits in every sector of the economy fall like dominoes, American workers face these battles in relative isolation from each other. It ought to be the ABC of wisdom that the issues we face in common should be addressed in common. The attacks on our livelihood should be met by a wall of solidarity, guided by action campaigns based on the old idea that 'an injury to one is an injury to all.'

Instead, we are distracted from focusing on this unity because our political efforts are mostly concentrated in campaigning for Democratic Party candidates, in the false hope that they will bail us out of our troubles.
Ironically, labor is most united only during election campaigns.