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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’

www.theguardian.com

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US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Cabin crews across North America aren’t paid for work done before takeoff, but new Air Canada deal has raised hope
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    What kind of people stay in a job like that? I would have to be pretty desperate and know that I was otherwise unemployable to keep showing up for a job that only paid me for a fraction of the time I was required to be there.

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      Because it’s still a “glamor” job, and it eventually pays OK after a decade + of work. Travel, travel benefits, don’t take your work home with you…if you’re good with people and can do the training it can be a good gig. It should pay better, but nobody gets paid until the door is closed and the plane pushes back. Not even the pilots, but pilot pay can be high enough to account for all the time at work outside the “door closed at departure and door open at destination” pay clock where the flight attendants are stuck dealing with passengers on a plane even if the door is closed sitting at the gate and they don’t get paid.

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        The greed in this world is astounding.

        We really need to stop respecting businessmen.

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        https://youtu.be/CHkgsYLs0DQ

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      Do you mean like work at Starbucks or Home Depot?

      https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/starbucks-executed-illegal-anti-union-campaign-labor-board-says

      https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/home-deport-responding-call-31-day-boycott-over-dei

      https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957

      The Home Depot was embroiled in whistleblower litigation brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) law. In July 2005, former employee Michael Davis, represented by attorney Mark D. Schwartz, filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Home Depot, alleging that his discharge was in retaliation for refusing to make unwarranted back charges against vendors. Davis alleges that the Home Depot forced its employees to meet a set quota of back charges to cover damaged or defective merchandise, forcing employees to make chargebacks to vendors for merchandise that was undamaged and not defective. The Home Depot alleges that it fired Davis for repeatedly failing to show up for work.

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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