11,000 People Who Prepare Your Airline Food Are Considering a Strike

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/business/economy/airport-workers-union.html

11,000 People Who Prepare Your Airline Food Are Considering a Strike
By Noam Scheiber
June 4, 2019

President Trump announced a deal to end the government shutdown in January after a shortage of air traffic controllers briefly stopped flights into La Guardia Airport. At the time, many concluded that workers’ impact on travel had led the White House to retreat.

“I think it’s really obvious to all aviation workers that that’s what happened,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants. “There are also many people in government who echo” that analysis.

Now, other airport workers are testing that proposition.

This month, about 11,000 airline catering employees — the people who prepare and transport food and beverages that millions of passengers consume on flights each year — will vote on a first step toward a possible labor stoppage. Many make the minimum wage in their areas, or less, and toil in harsh conditions with limited benefits. But collectively, they have the power to disrupt the air travel network.

“The smallest mishap or interruption in any kind of service ripples out,” said Liesl Orenic, a labor historian at Dominican University in Illinois who has studied airport workers. “If a plane doesn’t get catered, it can interrupt all the people getting on that plane and all the other flights that plane has to do.”

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. what airline food? the tiny bag of dry pretzel? the small package of cookies?

[lunasun]

6. International flights I'm in Chicago there are at least 4 or 5 big facilities out by Ohare airport

A friend of mine worked at sky chef that’s one of them
but there are other companies out by ohare area doing the same
thousand s of meals made and a lot of dietary requirements demand options for all and foods reflecting where the traveler is going etc.
https://www.lsgskychefs.com/what-we-do/airline-catering/
Good on the workers
not an easy job , doesn’t pay that great and they can impact flights

[Shrike47]

2. There is no airline food, is there? You could buy a snack, that was about it. The Coke cans?

[Turin_C3PO]

3. International flights still serve food.

Not sure about domestic.

[gladium et scutum]

8. First Class

on some U.S. flights will serve meals.

[Blue_true]

7. If I need to eat and have time, I eat in the terminal.

Airplane food is sketchy at best, unless you're on international in business class, with certain airlines.

[msongs]

4. no big deal for customers and lighter planes save $$ for the airlines don't see much leverage for

the union here and naturally the airlines will reduce the fares a tad right

[BigmanPigman]

5. UNION!