I did not know this about their pay scale.
Flight attendants at every US airline have never been paid for boarding or deplaning. We are only paid from when the aircraft door closes until it is reopened. Block out until Block in. We have been fighting to get paid for this free labor for decades.
Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding
Delta plans to begin the boarding pay, half of flight attendants’ hourly rates, on June 2, according to a company memo.
Flight attendants hand out refreshments on a Delta Air Lines flight on May 21.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file
April 26, 2022, 10:33 AM EDT / Source: CNBC.com
By Leslie Josephs, CNBC
Delta Air Lines said it will start paying flight attendants during boarding, a first for a major U.S. airline and an initiative that comes during a unionization drive for the Atlanta-based airline’s biggest work group.
Usually, flight attendants are paid starting when the aircraft doors close.
Delta plans to begin the boarding pay, half of flight attendants’ hourly rates, on June 2, according to a company memo. The carrier is also increasing boarding time for narrow-body flights to 40 minutes from 35, which the company says is “one of several steps we’re taking to add resiliency to our operation.”
The pay changes were announced as a union campaign by the Association of Flight Attendants that started in late 2019 picks up steam again as the Covid pandemic crisis wanes for airlines.
Delta’s more than 20,000 flight attendants are not unionized, unlike at other major U.S. airlines.
“As we get closer to filing for our union vote, management is getting nervous,” the AFA said late Monday in a statement. The organization is the country’s largest flight attendants union, representing cabin crews at United, Spirit, Hawaiian, Alaska and Frontier, among others.
“In this case, they also know that changing domestic boarding time from 35 to 40 minutes without adding a benefit would create an uproar — just as the ‘test’ in Atlanta did back in October,” the AFA said, referring to a test of the new procedure last fall.
The boarding pay is on top of the 4 percent raises Delta announced in March, employees’ first annual increase since 2019.
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Flight attendants at every US airline have never been paid for boarding or deplaning. We are only paid from when the aircraft door closes until it is reopened. Block out until Block in. We have been fighting to get paid for this free labor for decades.
Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding
Delta plans to begin the boarding pay, half of flight attendants’ hourly rates, on June 2, according to a company memo.
Flight attendants hand out refreshments on a Delta Air Lines flight on May 21.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file
April 26, 2022, 10:33 AM EDT / Source: CNBC.com
By Leslie Josephs, CNBC
Delta Air Lines said it will start paying flight attendants during boarding, a first for a major U.S. airline and an initiative that comes during a unionization drive for the Atlanta-based airline’s biggest work group.
Usually, flight attendants are paid starting when the aircraft doors close.
Delta plans to begin the boarding pay, half of flight attendants’ hourly rates, on June 2, according to a company memo. The carrier is also increasing boarding time for narrow-body flights to 40 minutes from 35, which the company says is “one of several steps we’re taking to add resiliency to our operation.”
The pay changes were announced as a union campaign by the Association of Flight Attendants that started in late 2019 picks up steam again as the Covid pandemic crisis wanes for airlines.
Delta’s more than 20,000 flight attendants are not unionized, unlike at other major U.S. airlines.
“As we get closer to filing for our union vote, management is getting nervous,” the AFA said late Monday in a statement. The organization is the country’s largest flight attendants union, representing cabin crews at United, Spirit, Hawaiian, Alaska and Frontier, among others.
“In this case, they also know that changing domestic boarding time from 35 to 40 minutes without adding a benefit would create an uproar — just as the ‘test’ in Atlanta did back in October,” the AFA said, referring to a test of the new procedure last fall.
The boarding pay is on top of the 4 percent raises Delta announced in March, employees’ first annual increase since 2019.
Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding
Delta plans to begin the boarding pay, half of flight attendants’ hourly rates, on June 2, according to a company memo.
www.nbcnews.com
