United Airlines rehires 600 flight attendants as traffic increases
July 11th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 56 times, 3 so far today
United Airlines rehires 600 flight attendants as traffic increases
Looks like the good times are back at United Airlines as the airline company is hiring back 600 employees. Reason being the company is reaching its full capacities on the flights and is thinking about hiring back another 850 employees later this year to meet the enhanced demands. United Airlines is a unit of the UAL Corporation and is going through a bankruptcy recovery phase.
These renewed hires of the company are expected to join back by August 9. Moreover, the rest of the employees are expected to be hired by the company by the end of November this year itself. United Airlines had to lay off this entire workforce after the 9/11 disaster which led to huge downfall in passengers leading to the airline going bankrupt.
United spokesperson Robin Urbanski said in a statement about these new events: “By the end of the year, we expect to have all of our flight attendants on furlough back.†However, the worker union of the airline claims that more people are leaving the airlines due to lack of job security provided by the company. Sara Nelson Dela Cruz, a representative for the flight attendants union said in a statement: “The pension fight has been a serious concern for flight attendants because they can’t come back to a job that isn’t going to provide them with a secure retirement.â€
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July 11th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
A fascinatingly, (if not misleading) ‘upbeat’ article for UAL…. the reality however is United Airlines senior management team has done everything to break the spirit of UAL employees. Flight atttendants, a front line, customer driven employee group, in particular, are quitting at unprecedented levels!
Ask UAL for exact statistics on employee turnover, report on that…
I hear fewer than 50% of the Flight Attendants return to UAL when recalled from furlough….. once they are free from UAL’s dismal corporate culture, entrenched senior managers, antiquated management philosophy, and markedly dimishing salary & benefits, they find little reason to return.
Better to stay in school, or work at K Mart.. BOTH afford them a regular schedule, nights at home with their loved ones, a far less ‘life threatening’ work environment… and, at least the hope of someday working in a positive, employee friendly work environment.
July 12th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
Come on Flight Attendents still make more then 25 dollars an hour, so they had there pensions taken away, last time I checked the pilots and mechanics lost there pensions too.
In 93 when Greenwald wanted pay cuts in exchange for ESOP shares the flight attendents were the only group who turned down the cuts and ESOP, and were the only group to get pay hikes.
September 5th, 2005 at 8:05 am
Correction – even if some flight attendants get paid more than 25 dollars an hour – it is exceptionally important to note that they only get paid for FLIGHT HOURS (meaning the time the aircraft is in the air) which for the average is about 75 hours a month.