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In recent summers, Southwest Airlines has had to deal with soda cans exploding during flight service. That’s led to a significant number of flight attendant injuries. Fortunately, they think they have a solution.
United Airlines is reportedly threatening flight attendants with potential termination to discourage them from seeking FMLA leave.
Rooms at the hotel feature bondage beds and swing frames; mirrored ceilings; “human-dog” cages and leather harnesses; sex toys – and one of their rooms contained a spa bath moulded in the shape of a vagina.
The airline can start putting up flight attendants in much lower quality hotels during their layovers. Instead of business class hotels, we could start to see hovels.
The United Airlines flight attendant contract that the union negotiated may already be in trouble. Online chatter is heavily negative. The future of the contract – whether flight attendants vote to ratify it or not – likely hinges on how well the union communicates with its members, and how much flight attendants trust the union. They need to quell these concerns quickly.
American Airlines flight attendants are selling their seniority again. The company is cracking down on them for it, and the union isn’t protecting the cabin crew.
Flight attendants get to ‘bid’ on trips based on seniority, choosing their schedules which are most convenient to them and which take them to the best destinations. That’s a perk that has real value. Want to fly to Rome? You’d better be super-senior… or be willing to pay someone who is to trade their trip with you.
Flight attendants will still have to ratify the deal. Pending major surprises though it seems likely, though some flight attendants will believe that they can always do better – that you should ‘never take the first deal’. However starting the click on “40% total economic improvements” in the first year along with retro pay is going to be something most crew will want right away.
Flight attendants are getting busted for accepting gifts from passengers – after passengers have been inspired to bribe their crew by a viral TikTok trend.
Nelson is clearly incorrect in her claim that the union protest was ‘protected,’ and put her members in jeopardy. Airline employees do not have an open-ended right to storm a private corporate event.
Protesting United Airlines flight attendants are now under investigation, and have been removed from flying duties. Suspending the crewmembers who disrupted United’s big media event was probably inevitable.
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