Tens of hundreds of flight attendants have participated in protests at greater than 30 main airports throughout the US on Tuesday (US time), as a part of a dispute over increased wages. 

A part of a ‘Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Motion’, picket line protests have been deliberate for New York Metropolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Orlando, Washington DC and Las Vegas amongst different main cities. 

There have been no stories the protests have impacted flights on the nation’s busiest airports.

Based on The Guardian, the motion comes as greater than two-thirds of US flight attendants, working at carriers together with United Airways, American Airways, Southwest Airways, Alaska Airways, Air Wisconsin, Omni and Frontier, negotiate new union contracts. 

“Legacy sexism that historically devalued our jobs should be stamped out and changed with the true worth of our work,” the group stated in a assertion. “Our time on the job should be compensated. We want retirement safety. We want flexibility and management of our lives.”

Based on Related Press, flight attendants additionally wish to be paid through the time that passengers board the aircraft. 

Presently, solely Delta Air Traces, whose attendants are nonunion, pays its attendants throughout boarding. In different US carriers, crew members’ hourly pay begins when passengers are seated and the aircraft doorways shut.

Flight attendants at American Airways, represented by the Affiliation of Skilled Flight Attendants (APFA), voted 99 per cent in favour of a strike in 2023, whereas greater than 98 per cent of flight attendants at Southwest Airways voted in favour of a strike authorisation final month, The Guardian reported. 

“With the wages that we’ve, it’s simply unsustainable. We will’t stay off of those wages,” acknowledged Air Wisconsin flight attendant Doris Millard, saying that her pay had modified little since she began on the airline in 1980. 

“I really feel like I’m being pressured to surrender my profession and discover one thing else or proceed to mainly stay in poverty.”

United Airways cabin crew, represented by the Affiliation of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), filed for mediation in December 2023 and have held a number of protests throughout wage negotiations.

“The federal mediator requested by the AFA has scheduled our first negotiations session for March 19. We’re trying ahead to working with AFA to slender the problems in order that we are able to proceed to work towards an industry-leading settlement for our flight attendants,” a United Airways spokesperson in an e-mail. 

Alaska Airways cabin crew will reveal the outcomes of their vote on whether or not to authorise a strike immediately.

Melissa Osborne, who has been with the Seattle-based provider for the previous seven years, disputes Alaska’s declare that the union’s proposals have been unworkable. She factors to document post-pandemic airline earnings, raises for pilots at Alaska and the provider’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airways.

“Even immediately placing on my uniform and going to work, there are a number of layers of tension all of us expertise,” stated Osborne. “I really feel like that stage of stress shouldn’t be being acknowledged by the corporate, they’re not recognising our price and what we do daily.”