Julie Hedrick

American Airlines Flight Attendants Can’t Afford Food, Shelter

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American Airlines Flight Attendants Can’t Afford Food, Shelter

Modern air travel is often terrible. Cramped seats, tiny luggage compartments — the list goes on. Yet, most of us in those cramped seats actually have it far better than the folks strolling the aisles, who — at least on American Airlines flights — earn barely over $27,000 per year while forced to live in … Read more

Lawmakers Tell Delta To Keep Its Dirty Union-Busting Hands To Itself As Flight Attendants Fight To Organize Union

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Lawmakers Tell Delta To Keep Its Dirty Union-Busting Hands To Itself As Flight Attendants Fight To Organize Union

While the airline industry in the U.S. is largely unionized, Delta is different. Its pilots and dispatchers are unionized, but Delta’s technicians and flight attendants, as well as its ramp, cargo and tower employees, are not. With renewed efforts to change that following years of growing support for unions, it’s starting to look like we … Read more