United has warned its flight attendants that intentionally bidding on trips during rolling delays to trigger pay protection could lead to termination.
“gotten a bit sneaky and entrepreneurial” … nice euphemism. If it were corporate doing this against workers, they’d say, ‘it’s just business.’ (Yet, when workers or consumers find the ‘arbitrage,’ obviously …bad. /s)
Depends whether this is actually breaking a real rule, or just goes against the ‘spirit’ of the rules, but not literally violating them.
This is the kind of crap unions encourage. Not surprised it’s happening and apparently growing.
No, unions do not ‘encourage’ this. Nonsense.
Certain members might engage, and like I said below, this is more so breaking the *spirit* of the rules than anything else.
“As United employees, we often have information about delays or cancellations available to us before our systems are updated and before that information is available to our customers.“
Love how they basically admit to misleading customers about the length of delays and likelihood of cancellations.
Actually United is one of the most honest about delays. You cannot imagine how dishonest Air Canada is.
It's not always inside knowledge sometimes it's just common sense that during a IROPS event this flight is likely to delay.
Every other article these days is about FA (and FA union) shenanigans.
All the US airlines with unionized FAs need to get together and decertify en masse. Now is the time to have the fight.