United Flight Attendants Vote 99.99% to Authorize Strike

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• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The United flight attendants—who are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA)—voted 99.99%, with 90.21% of members participating, to greenlight a work stoppage unless they win concessions including a double-digit raise, more schedule flexibility, improved work rules, job security, and retirement benefits.

  You can’t get 99.99% of people to agree the sky is blue. United Airlines must be royally fucking their employees to get that kind of united opposition.

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  • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, they united all of their workers against them.

    I‘m gonna see myself out.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They broke their guitars?

    Yes, I’m old.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a time when United was employee owned. What happened?

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  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Capitalism

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    • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The more precise issue imo is „work mandate“. We overproduce by a huge margin just to „give people work“ which they dont actually need.

      If we stopped producing shit that is not necessary, just a tiny fraction of humanity would need to work for everyone to have food.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In so many instances employee owned does not mean what it says. It can be as little as each employee getting one nonvoting share.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably a bankruptcy.

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• Anamnesis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who has been burned by their dumbass “hide the baggage fee and charge $25 less than your competitors” strategy, fuck United. I filter them out whenever I’m looking for flights.

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  • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost all the airlines are doing that these days.

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Air Canada also voted 99% this week to authorize strike. Reforms in the air travel sector coming?

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