Comment on American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoNope. 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.
Comment on American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoNope. 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They used to get paid with a pack of cigarettes and a slap on the ass.
Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure Spirit still does
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Spirit outsources the slap to whoever is sitting in seat 1C.