Thank you for the opportunity to make this presentation.
My name i s Matthew FFnucane. I am an attorney and the Director of A i r Safety and Health for the Association of Flight Attendants.
The Association of Flight ~ttendantsis a single union representing 21,000 flight attendants at 14U.S. airlines. We are the largest flight attendant union in the world.
With me i s Pamela Casey, an elected officer of our association and an Alaska Airlines flight attendant. Also with me today is our health researcher, Zabel Zakarian, whose background includes graduate training at two schools of Public Health.
The Association of Flight Attendants was described in the trade press as a "prime mover" behind the Act that led to the form- ation of this committee, and I think that the legislative history of the Act shows that Congress wanted this committee to look into flight attendant health, insofar as it is affected by cabin air quality, as well as passenger health.
As this distinguished group of scientists looks at the flight attendant health issue, I think you wi l l find that this is perhaps the first time that a group of this caliber 'has ever really studied the health of this working group. For whatever political or social reasons, flight attendant health has been neglected by the Federal Aviation Administration, OSHA, EPA, NIOSH, and health scientists.
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