View Gallery: Spirit Airlines flight attendants picket at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Spirit flight attendants also demonstrated last week in Dallas, Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida. The demonstration is another example of a surge in activity by the labor movement in recent months by workers empowered by companies challenged to find new employees, growing corporate profits, renewed respect for essential workers and a sympathetic presidential administration. We've had flight attendants sleeping on floors being stranded for 20 to 30 hours."
"They have nowhere to go, no hotel to stay in. "It's very frustrating," said Deb Crowley, a flight attendant for 24 years and president of the Spirit AFA Local 76 representing Detroit and Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was Spirit's fourth mass cancellation since August, according to the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which leaves both passengers and crew members stranded, even for days. Spirit Airlines canceled more than 30% of their flights nationally earlier this month along with other major airlines amid severe weather in the southeast United States, airspace congestion and technology issues. on Tuesday picketed outside Detroit Metropolitan Airport, demanding the Florida-based low-cost carrier uphold its end of their contract by providing hotel accommodations and better communications in the event of cancelled flights. Unionized flight attendants with Spirit Airlines Inc.
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