Not everyone is happy with the FAA,
as the Flight Attendants Union filed a lawsuit... [Read more...]
Not everyone is happy with the FAA,
as the Flight Attendants Union filed a lawsuit last Friday, challenging the use of electronics.
Not exact matches
Not only does the process tend to punt difficult decisions to future contracts, but arbitrators often prove sympathetic to
union positions,
as recently happened when Air Canada
flight attendants won a pension that blends elements of the defined benefits and defined contributions models.
Pilots and
flight attendants plan to strike for four hours from 1 p.m. local time on Dec. 15, the Anpac
union said in a letter to the airline, adding that they're campaigning for the right to negotiate collective labor agreements,
as well
as on issues including social security, health care and vacation planning.
Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described
as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the US — not immigration (pilots and
flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of
unions (
union density remains high).
Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described
as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the U.S. — not immigration (pilots and
flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of
unions (
union density remains high).
Shortly before the
flight, the chief
flight attendant is giving Whip the business for not going to church;
as he lays in the hospital recovering, his pilot's
union rep (Bruce Greenwood) tells him, «the way you landed that plane was nothing short of a miracle.»