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Flight attendants’ quest for better pay and conditions stretches back decades, as Mary Longobardi, the former president of the unionized Flight Attendants of Southwest Airlines and a flight ...
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines flight attendants have voted down a contract offer reached by negotiators for the airline and the union. The Transport Workers Union Local 556 said Friday that ...
Starting Dec. 4, Southwest flight attendant crews will wrap up in-flight service at 18,000 feet to begin preparing the cabin for landing sooner, a spokesperson for the Dallas-based carrier ...
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
Flight attendant unions were formed, beginning at United Airlines in the 1940s, to negotiate improvements in pay, benefits and working conditions. [89] Those unions would later challenge what they perceived as sexist stereotypes and unfair work practices such as age limits, size limits, limitations on marriage, and prohibition of pregnancy.
The airline, branding itself as the "love airline," outfitted its flight attendants in hot pants and go-go boots and provided passengers with complimentary drinks referred to as "love potions." [3] As a part of maintaining this image, Southwest exclusively hired women for flight attendant and ticketing agent positions. At the time of the case's ...
Southwest Airlines is planning to reduce service to and from Atlanta next year, cutting more than 300 pilot and flight attendant positions, according to a company memo seen by CNBC.
TWU 556 is not the only union across the country protesting airlines. Flight attendants at Southwest and United airlines demonstrated at more than 20 airports across the U.S. and in London on Tuesday.