Originally Posted by NYCommuter

From a flyer that I received from protesters outside AA's stockholders' meeting in NYC this morning:

"in AA's Miami hub, for example:

* Workers still earn as little as $8.80/hour;
* Despite an average tenure of 7 years, the average wage is only $11/hour.
* Over 85% of the workers earn less than $12.99 - the living wage paid by other airline contractors as per the Miami-Dade Living Wage Ordinance."

Seems like the issue sort of falls on contractors who employ workers for AA at the airport, but surely AA could do something to increase wages.

Since AA seems to have no problem extracting cash out of us, its customers, due to its near-monopoly status in some areas, I'm pulling for the workers.