Did you know that on average, flight attendants do 35 hours per month of unpaid work? When a flight attendant is checking your ticket during boarding, doing pre-flight safety checks, deplaning, and hundreds of other seemingly small duties, they're technically doing that for free—but unions are trying to change that.
The union representing flight attendants in Canada, the Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is fighting against the unfairness of unpaid work across the airline sector, and just launched a new series for its campaign dubbed Airline Division's Unpaid Work Won't Fly.
While the campaign is specific to the Canadian flight attendant union, similar issues have been raised by American flight attendants as US unions push for additional pay and other changes to industry norms, such as the unpaid time attendants spend waiting between flights for planes to be ready. For more on the campaign, check our link in bio.
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