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After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Now everyone in the industry will want to work for this airline so they will be able to hire from a much bigger (and better?) pool of applicants.

Cue the other airlines: "Nobody wants to work anymore!"

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Indeed, unions don't just help your company, they help workers across the industry as they force every competing company to improve conditions to keep workers.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

But they will have to pay competitive wages 😭

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't usually trust these image headlines but I looked it up and it checks out :)

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/southwest-airlines-flight-attendants-ratify-new-contract-2024-04-24/

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I used to have money in airline stock, and Southwest is a solid company. I seem to remember they had a better debt to income ratio than any other airline.

[–] fanzel@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

That's awesome!

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 6 months ago

Unions don't work at all, that's totally unrelated as to why they fight so hard to keep them from forming and gaining power!

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I hope the owners are balling their eyes out