After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry

https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/112368152131332805

369 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world

8 Comments

ladicius@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

But they will have to pay competitive wages 😭

Retrograde@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

That's awesome!

BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

I hope the owners are balling their eyes out