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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay

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American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Flight attendants typically aren’t paid during boarding time. Earlier this month, after a three-year contract campaign and a credible strike threat, flight attendants at American Airlines became the first to win boarding pay.
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    Nope. Their pay started when the door closed and ended when it opened. The rest of the work at the gate or prepping the cabin was just free labor.

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      And that’s WITH existing union agreements already, so you know it was even worse than that before the union was formed in the first place. Unions don’t appear out of nowhere. If a business or industry has a union, it’s because the workers were being screwed so hard it became necessary.

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        They used to get paid with a pack of cigarettes and a slap on the ass.

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          Pretty sure Spirit still does

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            Spirit outsources the slap to whoever is sitting in seat 1C.

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              Is it wage theft if I just say I did it?

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