Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Picketing at PDX
Aug 15, 2023, 12:40 pm
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Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Picketing at PDX
Just walked through a rambunctious crowd of AS FA’s who are chanting and holding signs about equal pay. They are at the passenger drop off area. One sign says “first in customer satisfaction, 6th in pay”. I won’t post a photo to protect their privacy. I am flying DE today so this won’t affect me.
Aug 15, 2023, 1:21 pm
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Not many details but it looks like contract talks have broken down.
Aug 15, 2023, 3:16 pm
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Aug 15, 2023, 7:11 pm
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An ADN article about the protests at ANC
https://www.adn.com/business-economy...orage-airport/
https://www.adn.com/business-economy...orage-airport/
Dec 25, 2023, 5:34 pm
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AS flight attendants on welfare
Another ADN article as the picketing has resumed, and recently at ANC. The article goes on to say that Junior Flight Attendants are on poverty level wages.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/avia...ontract-fight/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/avia...ontract-fight/
Dec 26, 2023, 4:34 pm
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With some flight attendants on welfare, Alaska Airlines faces contract fight (Seattle Times)
Whoa.
Edit: Just noticed it's the same article, but on a different site, that AKLifetimeFlyer posted. I get prompted for a login on adn.com, though.
Whoa.
Edit: Just noticed it's the same article, but on a different site, that AKLifetimeFlyer posted. I get prompted for a login on adn.com, though.
Dec 26, 2023, 6:47 pm
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But I suspect things are more day to day. (And when I’ve been in labor organization we used less publicly updates too…)
The site also sells supportive swag.
Dec 26, 2023, 6:51 pm
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Oh here is more info too on picketing!
https://contract2022.afaalaska.org/dec-19-solidarity/
https://contract2022.afaalaska.org/dec-19-solidarity/
Dec 26, 2023, 6:55 pm
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This seems to have more:
https://contract2022.afaalaska.org/dec-19-solidarity/
Dec 26, 2023, 7:48 pm
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With some flight attendants on welfare, Alaska Airlines faces contract fight (Seattle Times)
Whoa.
Edit: Just noticed it's the same article, but on a different site, that AKLifetimeFlyer posted. I get prompted for a login on adn.com, though.
Whoa.
Edit: Just noticed it's the same article, but on a different site, that AKLifetimeFlyer posted. I get prompted for a login on adn.com, though.
Dec 26, 2023, 10:24 pm
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The current entry level pay rate is $24.95 per flight segment, with a one-day trip counted as a minimum of five segments and longer flights as eight.
What Alaska Airlines crews call a “milk run” in the state of Alaska — for example, Flight 66, Anchorage to Seattle with stops along the way at Cordova, Yakutat and Juneau — counts as 5.1 flight segments and is scheduled to take nine hours.
For that, a new flight attendant will be paid just $127 gross. That’s $14.14 per hour. And if the trip ends up taking an extra 90 minutes, which happens easily on these multileg journeys especially in winter, the rate would be $12.12 per hour. Extra pay only kicks in when the delay is more than two hours.
What Alaska Airlines crews call a “milk run” in the state of Alaska — for example, Flight 66, Anchorage to Seattle with stops along the way at Cordova, Yakutat and Juneau — counts as 5.1 flight segments and is scheduled to take nine hours.
For that, a new flight attendant will be paid just $127 gross. That’s $14.14 per hour. And if the trip ends up taking an extra 90 minutes, which happens easily on these multileg journeys especially in winter, the rate would be $12.12 per hour. Extra pay only kicks in when the delay is more than two hours.
That is absurdly low. Wow.