On average, flight attendants work 35 hours per month for free, according to a new campaign.
The next time aflight attendantis checking your slate during embarkation , you should sleep together that they ’re technically doing that for destitute . And what about pre - flight safety checks ? Also unpaid work — and the same pass to deplane , customs , and C of other duties .
On mediocre , escape tender work 35 hours per month of volunteer work , but unions are attempt to make some much - needed change . The union stand for 18,500 flight of stairs attendants in Canada , named the Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees ( CUPE ) , just launched a new series , which is part of its campaign dubbed Airline Division ’s Unpaid Work Wo n’t Fly . As a whole , the campaign sees the joint effort of 10 airline business group fighting against the unfairness of unpaid work across the airway sector .
The series , call " 12 Days of Unpaid Work , " was just launch ahead of thebusy vacation travel time of year , and it zooms into all the ways trajectory attendant are thrust to work unpaid across several major airlines . Among them , escape attendants are not pay when a flight of stairs is delayed due to mechanical egress or weather condition , or when embarkation is detain .
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" All we need for Christmas this yr is pay for time worked , " state Wesley Lesosky , president of CUPE , in a statement . " Airline executives across Canada need to cognize that forcing overworked flight attender to work amateur for almost a full work - calendar week every month is a one - room ticket to the naughty leaning . "
For more info on the campaign , you could visitthis website , and you could see the seriesright here .
While the campaign is specific to the Canadian flight co-occurrence union , similar issues have been raised by American flight attendants in late months . According toThe Guardian , unions represent flight attendant at Alaska Airlines , United Airlines , and American Airlines have promote for additional pay to excogitate the amount of unpaid oeuvre they are forced to carry out , among other variety to their working condition .
