American Airlines flight attendants take key step toward possible strike
www.cbsnews.com
Flight attendants for the carrier voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, but a walkout remains unlikely.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/4068290

Federal law makes it difficult for airline unions to conduct legal strikes. Under Railway Labor Act, they need decision from federal mediators that further negotiations would be pointless, which rarely happens. The president and Congress can also get involved to delay or block strike.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    I flew American a couple of weeks ago and one of the planes had a funny attendant crew. I believe they were a crew from the northeast. One of them, a 50ish lady, was going over the exit aisle instructions with the people sitting there. One of them, a guy also around 50, was trying to joke around with her in a good-natured manner as far as I could tell in the brief part of the interaction I saw as I shuffled by to my seat. At first she seemed to go along with it but then suddenly she said “If you would just shut up I can explain this to you.” I was like damn, this lady is living the customer service dream.

    • hellishharlot@programming.dev
      10·
      1 year ago

      Nope. We’ve started hitting the normies boiling point tho. Salaries need a massive lift for everyone below a director level in corporate and anyone not working as a captain in aviation. Strikes are how we the people say enough is enough but it seems like the powers that be are asking us to full on general strike at this point with the resistance they have been putting up against minor increases