APFA to Participate in the United Against Slavery National Outreach Survey for Transportation

(Euless, TX) - Today, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) announced its participation in a global research collaboration spearheaded by United Against Slavery to fight human trafficking via the 2021 National Outreach Survey for Transportation (NOST) project. Over 100 contributors, including 59 oversight agencies from Canada, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the USA, will analyze frontline data from the aviation, maritime, pipeline, railroad, roadway, and public transit agencies to craft policies and solutions to disrupt this criminal activity and ultimately make it difficult, unattractive and unprofitable.

In 2020, United Against Slavery (UAS) became the first-ever recipient of the USDOT Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award. Christi Wigle, Co-Founder, and CEO stated, “The National Outreach Survey for Transportation project will launch [today], and [will] be open to our collaboration partners for sixty days. The survey tool is designed to collect frontline data on all types of human trafficking to inform research, programming, evaluation, and other functions of the counter-trafficking community. The aggregate findings and data analysis will be completed and disseminated by April 2022 and will guide the collaboration team in crafting global solutions that can help save lives. Our collaborative data collection efforts at United Against Slavery is to help victims be freed from enslavement and to empower survivors with the resources needed in their healing journeys.”

About APFA:
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) represents the 24,000+ Flight Attendants of American Airlines, an airline that consists of aviation professionals with a diverse history brought together from multiple airlines. From APFA’s inception in 1977, the Union has fiercely advocated for the Flight Attendant profession. Our Union has been at the forefront of the fight for workplace equality, legislative affairs, and worker’s rights.


APFA Headquarters:
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