Flight attendants typically aren’t paid during boarding time. Earlier this month, after a three-year contract campaign and a credible strike threat, flight attendants at American Airlines became the first to win boarding pay.
  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    1 month ago

    They weren’t being paid during the time they were working to usher and assist boarding passengers?

    What the fuck.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      70·
      1 month 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.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 month 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.worksEnglish
      24·
      1 month 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.

  • CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world
    73·
    1 month ago

    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

    • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
      2·
      1 month 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.)

    • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 month ago

      Not that I’m defending them but that will probably put all airliners out of business. Which I hope it would.