How to Make the Airline Bailout Work for Workers, Not Just CEOs (fast food, ethical)

[sickofnyc]

The U.S. airline industry is asking for nearly $60 billion in taxpayer-funded direct assistance and loan guarantees. Will the imminent airline bailout mostly benefit top executives and shareholders or center on protecting the industry’s most vulnerable workers?

Sara Nelson, the dynamic president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, has made a powerful case for direct payroll subsidies to the employees...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hX...ature=youtu.be

To keep our tax dollars from padding the pockets of executives and shareholders, Nelson is also demanding a ban on executive bonuses and stock buybacks, and we should all share her well-founded concerns about how airline executives would spend taxpayer bailouts if left to their own devices.

[notnamed]

If we have to go down the crappy road of a bailout, this is the much preferred way to do it.

[andywire]

They should fill the aircrafts with money. Then when they are flying across America, they should make it rain. That's the only responsible, ethical way to handle this. It would also get Americans outside exercising and getting fresh air instead of siting in front of that idiot box filling their brains with propaganda and partisan BS telling them to hate their fellow American.

And they should close down some of these fast food places too. Americans are too damn fat. It is disgusting what the CEOs of this nation have done to the herd.