Alaska Airlines, American and United could all be disrupted as air crew demand fairer share of vast profits

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    1910 months ago

    It’s absolutely crazy that flight attendants don’t get paid until the plane doors close.

    How did airplane companies get away with this?

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      310 months ago

      It’s absolutely crazy that flight attendants don’t get paid until the plane doors close.

      i think it’s similar for pilots?

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      010 months ago

      I don’t see the issue with it as long as they are getting paid a good rate.

      For instance if you’re collecting 250k a year from doing this work it doesn’t matter much if it were salary or if the doors are closed because it’s good money either way.

      The problem here is that they aren’t getting that 250k because their rates are so low.

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        -110 months ago

        Agreed, whether it’s pay by mile, from when the door’s shut, when boarding, or set off by the time a certain phone call dispatches you, that’s just semantics. If you’re making a good wage or salary, what of it? The real issue is 24k-27k a year. That’s 13 bucks an hour on the top end. 13 bucks an hour when you have 2k a month rent for the cheap roach infested slums in most cities.