Flight attendants plan to rally at four major Canadian airports today over what they say are unfair working conditions that keep them on the clock without being paid.
CUPE, which represents about 18,500 flight attendants across the country, says much of the time that they’re present for their employers and in uniform, they’re doing it for free.
The union says it leads to flight attendants working on average 35 hours each month without compensation.
“We get paid pretty much anytime the plane’s in motion,” said Wesley Lesosky, a flight attendant with Air Canada and president of CUPE’s airline division.
The union says that means there are many jobs flight attendants do without pay.
“All the safety-related stuff,
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