Flight attendants in Chicago and across the country hold airport rallies to protest the lack of new

(13 Feb 2024)
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Chicago - 13 February 2024
1. Various of flight attendants holding signs and chanting. UPSOUND: "Contract now!"
HEADLINE: Flight attendants rally at airports, push for higher wages
ANNOTATION: Three unions representing flight attendants at major U.S. airlines held rallies at 30 airports Tuesday as they push for new contracts and higher wages.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Corliss King, Southwest Airlines flight attendant and union leader:
"We are demanding the respect of flight attendants and our profession. We are not standing down any longer to substandard contracts, to substandard conditions to substandard wages for what we do."
3. Mid of flight attendants holding signs and chanting. UPSOUND: "No contract, no peace."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Corliss King, Southwest Airlines flight attendant and union leader:
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"We are ready to take all available options that are afforded to us under our collective bargaining agreement. But most importantly, we are standing here together. We represent 100s of 1,000s of workers in the aviation industry, and flight attendants number 100,000 and more. We are safety professionals and these corporations have to come to the table and respect what we do."
5. Flight attendants holding signs
STORYLINE:
Flight attendants for major U.S. airlines are holding rallies at airports around the country to push for higher pay.

Tuesday's protests are not, however, a strike. Federal law makes it difficult for airline unions to go on strike.

At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Southwest Airlines flight attendant and union leader Corliss King said, "We are ready to take all available options that are afforded to us under our collective bargaining agreement."

King added "We represent 100s of 1,000s of workers in the aviation industry, and flight attendants number 100,000 and more and these corporations have to come to the table and respect what we do."

Flight attendants are frustrated that pilots won huge pay raises last year while they continue to work for wages that, in some cases, have not increased in several years.

The protests are being organized by three unions that represent cabin crews at American, United, Southwest and several smaller airlines. 

AP Video shot by Teresa Crawford

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