Flight attendants demand change, hold airport protests over lack of new contracts, pay raises

Tuesday's protests are not, however, a strike

Three abstracted unions representing formation attendants astatine large U.S. airlines are picketing and holding rallies astatine 30 airports connected Tuesday arsenic they propulsion for caller contracts and higher wages.

The formation attendants are progressively frustrated that pilots won immense wage raises past twelvemonth portion they proceed to enactment for wages that, successful immoderate cases, person not accrued successful respective years.

They reason that they person not been rewarded for moving done the pandemic and being liable for the information of passengers.

The unions are calling Tuesday's protests a nationalist time of action. It is not a strike.

Federal instrumentality makes it hard for hose unions to behaviour ineligible strikes, which tin beryllium delayed oregon blocked by national mediators, the president and Congress. Mediators person already turned down 1 petition by formation attendants astatine American Airlines to statesman a countdown to a strike; the national plans to inquire again adjacent month.

Tuesday's protests were organized by the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents crews astatine United Airlines and respective different carriers; the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the national of crews astatine American, and the Transport Workers Union, which represents crews astatine Southwest and different airlines.