Amid longer delays, they are asking for better conditions as well
’s pickup area to protest poor working conditions, stagnating wages, and years-long negotiations with their airlines. Thirty airports across the country saw flight attendants from 24 airlines picketing that day for thesimilar accounts of exhausting working conditions, with one major theme: They’re not paid for any work done on the ground, and that work is increasing.
“You could be on duty for 11 hours, but you may have spent five hours of that day sitting on the ground, boarding passengers – doing work, but not getting paid. What other job can you show up, clock in, and not be paid for full days?” Kira Silvera with American Airlines, who has 10 years of flying experience – four of which have been spent in negotiations – says in addition to ground pay, the hours create unsafe situations.
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