That is a huge deal. They should be paid from the minute they enter the airport but this is at least a step in the right direction. Another W for unions
American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay
Submitted 1 day ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/american-flight-attendants-boarding-pay
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CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PunnyName@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Now give them retroactive boarding back pay.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
Collective action works. Tell your friends.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They weren’t being paid during the time they were working to usher and assist boarding passengers?
What the fuck.
catloaf@lemm.ee 22 hours 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 hours 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.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
You a freelancer/contractor now?
In office you weren’t salaried I suppose