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Originally Posted by YYCguys
What other company or industry pays their staff for 50-70% of their pay?  |
Trucking would like a word. I'm hourly paid, so this isn't me, although if my boss wanted to pay my day's wages in the first hour, I would do the rest of the day "free". Many truck drivers get paid by the trip or by the mile. Not paid for sitting in traffic on the 401, not paid sitting at a loading dock, not paid while they fuel the truck, not paid while they do government required pre-trip inspections and filling out of electronic log books and load sheets. But after the doors close and the wheels roll. Most of them don't start at the $30+ an hour an entry level FA starts at.
Granted, flight attendants don't make a great paycheck early on in their career, like many also don't as they start out in other careers. In looking at the AC CUPE contract right now, it does have a good upside though in wages as you go up in years and position. Plus pretty good benefits. That higher hourly wage is because of the fewer paid hours. I have no idea why the industry went this route decades ago. I will say that CUPE has ran a pretty good PR campaign about the "free work", but never talks about the high hourly pay after a few years of seniority that is meant to compensate for that unpaid ground time.
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