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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope. Their pay started when the door closed and ended when it opened. The rest of the work at the gate or prepping the cabin was just free labor.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And that's WITH existing union agreements already, so you know it was even worse than that before the union was formed in the first place. Unions don't appear out of nowhere. If a business or industry has a union, it's because the workers were being screwed so hard it became necessary.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They used to get paid with a pack of cigarettes and a slap on the ass.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty sure Spirit still does