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April 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Delta Airlines announced this week it would begin paying flights attendants for time spent boarding the plane. Previously, flight attendants were not paid for their work helping board the plane until the plane’s door was closed, a practice flight attendants have derided. Delta is the first U.S. airline to begin compensating flight attendants for this […]

Air-Rage: A Rising Threat to Flight Attendants’ Physical and Mental Health

Oct 25, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

In May, a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight to San Diego punched a flight attendant after she asked the passenger to wear a facemask. In early August, a drunk passenger groped two women flight attendants and punched a male flight attendant. The crew created a makeshift restraint out of duct tape to stabilize the […]

November 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

In anticipation of the coming Biden presidency, Edward Segal, writing for Forbes, examined Biden’s labor plan to see what he can accomplish through solely executive action and what needs congressional approval. Of the reforms listed on Biden’s plan, the ones he can accomplish solely through executive action are restoring and expanding bargaining protections for federal […]

May 14, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Department of Labor announced this morning that 2.9 million more Americans filed for unemployment in the past week, raising the nation’s record-shattering unemployment rate beyond 14.7%. Among the 36.5 million people now unemployed are some 600,000 clean energy workers, whose employment has been especially affected due to comparative economic fragility of many clean-energy start-ups […]

May 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the NLRB ruled against the UAW in its bid for a new election to represent both skilled production and maintenance employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In December 2015, the Board certified the UAW as the representative of only the maintenance employees following an election victory for that unit after the union’s […]

January 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The government shutdown ended Friday afternoon after 35 days. Many political players and commentators are attributing Trump’s “caving” on the border wall to Nancy Pelosi’s prowess at controlling the struggle between the parties, or to rising public resentment and fear of the shutdown’s long-term economic and social costs. But it is worth highlighting that hours […]

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April 29, 2022

Air-Rage: A Rising Threat to Flight Attendants’ Physical and Mental Health

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