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 7 months 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 7 months ago
abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 7 months ago
Agreed!
Flight attendants typically are not paid until the aircraft doors close. All that greeting, seating, sorting out problems, and assistance with bags is off the clock.
This makes no sense. This is a major part of their job. Imagine what would happen if they stopped doing this function altogether - boarding would become unbearable.
Next I'll find out that the pay stops as soon as the doors open and they're not getting paid to help people off the plane or greet them. (Seriously, I hope I don't find this out because it's not true.)
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It does stop the second the door opens. No idea if this change fixes that too tho
PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now give them retroactive boarding back pay.
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not that I’m defending them but that will probably put all airliners out of business. Which I hope it would.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Collective action works. Tell your friends.
exanime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah the land of the free to be exploited by corporations…
exanime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tcworkerscenter.org/…/wage-theft-vs-other-forms-o…
Wage theft dwarfs and eclipses any other type of theft COMBINED. But how many cops are arresting CEOs for that? How many in jail? 0
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They weren’t being paid during the time they were working to usher and assist boarding passengers?
What the fuck.
catloaf@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
You a freelancer/contractor now?
In office you weren’t salaried I suppose