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minus-squareBigDiction@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·11 days agoBlows my mind that flight crews don’t get pay or only half pay at the gates. They’re uniformed and very visibly working before the door closes. They’re doing safety checks for a voyage of hundreds of people paying $200k+ combined, unpaid, even when in a CA airport. Bonkers.
minus-squareGodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 days agoIf they get a good captain they can trigger what looks like a door closure in the system during boarding so everyone is getting paid. Source: 25 year former airline employee here.
minus-squaretackleberry@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 days agowhy do they have to do that and not actually pay people for their time at work?
minus-squareGodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agol couldn’t tell you, that’s been procedure for decades
minus-squareTiger666@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 days agoCapitalism. The reasoning was the employees get to travel the world.
Blows my mind that flight crews don’t get pay or only half pay at the gates. They’re uniformed and very visibly working before the door closes.
They’re doing safety checks for a voyage of hundreds of people paying $200k+ combined, unpaid, even when in a CA airport. Bonkers.
If they get a good captain they can trigger what looks like a door closure in the system during boarding so everyone is getting paid.
Source: 25 year former airline employee here.
why do they have to do that and not actually pay people for their time at work?
l couldn’t tell you, that’s been procedure for decades
Capitalism. The reasoning was the employees get to travel the world.
it’s a historical union thing
Nice!