American Airlines Pilots to Picket in 9 cities Tuesday [View All]

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Pilots to picket in 9 cities Tuesday and around major customers businesses in an effort to highlight incompetent management's effect on the airline and bring attention to their working under 1992 wages.

They are fed up with substandard wages and working conditions, and having to deal with or fix management mistakes. For example: pilots are not paid unless the aircraft is moving so delays or cancellation of a 3 or 4 day trip may cost many the equivalent of a house payment. In addition, they are required to be in place at the airport but are not paid until they are in the cockpit. For many, this means they are gone 80-100 hours and only get paid for 20 to 25 hours at most.