Comment on American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay

spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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      • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Pretty sure Spirit still does

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is seriously insane to me. I start getting paid as soon as my ass hits my chair. And when I was working in an office, it was as soon as my foot went in the door.

  I can’t imagine interacting with the public on behalf of a company without being paid for it. Wtf.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You a freelancer/contractor now?

    In office you weren’t salaried I suppose

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was a consultant for most of my career until recently where I switched to a salary employee.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah hope that’s a rewarding switch one way ($) and/or another

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