Delta Offers Flight Attendants Boarding Pay Amid Union Drive
Photo Caption: Delta flight attendants will be paid for boarding time from June. Delta Air Lines
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Delta will pay flight attendants for boarding time in what it claims is a move to improve reliability. But the additional pay comes as the largest flight attendant union tries to organize crews amid a national rise in organized labor.
Remember the last time you sat on a plane at the gate with the door open eager to push back and depart? Well the crew was eager as well because, at least in the U.S., they were not getting paid for sitting at the gate.
That is about to change at Delta Air Lines where the carrier will begin boarding pay for flight attendants on June 2, according to an internal memo to Delta flight attendants on Monday viewed by Skift. Delta is the largest U.S. airline without unions, including for flight attendants. The carrier's concession to flight attendants on pay comes as workers have gain traction to form unions across the country, including at Amazon.
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