"Those turkeys are not flying through Charlotte this week!"
Posted on 11/25/2024 2:08:59 PM PST by Salman
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Workers who clean airplanes, remove trash and help with wheelchairs at Charlotte’s airport, one of the nation’s busiest, went on strike Monday during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel to demand higher wages.
The Service Employees International Union announced the strike in a statement early Monday, saying the workers would demand “an end to poverty wages and respect on the job during the holiday travel season.” The strike was expected to last 24 hours, said union spokesperson Sean Keady.
Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a hub for American Airlines. The two companies contract with American, one of the world’s biggest carriers, to provide services such as cleaning airplane interiors, removing trash and escorting passengers in wheelchairs.
American doesn’t expect “any significant disruption” to its flights this week as a result of the strike, the company said in a statement. More than 30 American flights at the Charlotte airport — about 4% of the airline’s flights — were delayed at midafternoon Monday, according to FlightAware, which isn’t out of the ordinary.
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Gee. If hours long waits to get through TSA and this possible strike and the forecast of very bad weather all at Thanksgiving Week....
Anyone remotely thinking of flying better just drive.
~~~sheesh
CLT (heh) is a busy place
"Those turkeys are not flying through Charlotte this week!"
Seriously?
What are they thinking. Years ago the church I was attending sold bonds through Church Loans & Investment Trust.
And wouldn’t ya know it... They still operate under that same name today.
I made the just drive call in 2002 and haven’t missed flying since.
It looks like I will have to fly next year for the first time in I don’t remember how long even though I would prefer to drive.
Other people have to be accommodated.
Spit.
Cruelty on a mass scale, cold blooded people.
I get a little chuckle every time I fly through there. I can only imagine the workers
“$12.50 to $19” per hour? That’s all they get paid?
It’s a miracle they have anyone take the job in the first place.
You can’t get a babysitter for less than $20/hour.
Maybe the managers could cut back on their bonuses.
OMG. My daughter and son-in-law just boarded a flight in Charlotte a few minutes ago. They complained about how long it took to board.
If the people who clean the planes and such between flights are on strike, that would indeed cause delays in boarding.
My wife and I talk about this all the time. There are a very large number of workers who simply don’t make a living wage. Can’t afford to buy a house, can’t afford to get married, can’t afford to rent an apartment. Working full-time at jobs that seem like “real jobs” but these people’s lives aren’t going anywhere at all because the wages are pathetically low.
Something is fundamentally wrong with our economy when two-income families struggle to survive, and one-income individuals have to live in Mom’s basement.
I’m not a Union guy, and I know a $40/hr minimum wage wouldn’t work. But I think our society should spend some time to think about why “working” no longer provides a “living” for so many people. It’s wrong.
Fire them all.
“Something is fundamentally wrong with our economy when two-income families struggle to survive, and one-income individuals have to live in Mom’s basement.”
I just heard some interesting commentary on this. When the wives first started working, then the family got the benefit of the two-income household. What happened was, this drove up the price of houses and baby sitting and everything those people bought. More money chasing the same goods and the goods go up in price. Also, when you have kids, you have to move to a better school zone. In Tallahassee the city wanted to improve the failing academic rating for a bad, inner-city school. They widened the district to include a bunch of white middle class families who had previously been in a good school district. Many people I worked with were in that district. They sold their homes and moved into apartments which cost much more to rent because of this. The alternative was exposing their kids to a zero-learning experience. (BTW, that school wasn’t failing because they didn’t spend lavishly. They did. Must have been another cause for the poor performance.)
Those who work in jobs that are compensated higher keep pulling further ahead.
Need to go to flat dollar increases.
Living within ones means is a good start very few think they need to do. And if you don't like your income than do the hard work to change that like we had to do.
Every generation had to go thru difficult times.....you did what you had to do.
“I made the just drive call in 2002 and haven’t missed flying since.”
Why would anyone make that call?
Back in the 1990’s, we pulled into PHL. Due to weather, we were the only plane to land there in about 8 hrs. We had been delayed and our plane was, admittedly, trashed. The cleaners got on and started screaming - mind you, we were the ONLY plane they had serviced all day and they had to pick up napkins, peanut wrappers and cups left behind by passengers who had been on our plane for hours. They pulled a slowdown and started screaming they deserved to earn $100k a year.
We froze and refused to make eye contact lest we provoke them. They were THISCLOSE to pulling a work stoppage because they were just uneducated a-holes.
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