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solo@kbin.earth to Not The Onion@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low

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American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low

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solo@kbin.earth to Not The Onion@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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American Airlines is reportedly issuing so-called ‘poverty verification letters’ for some new-hire flight attendants based in the most expensive metro areas in the United States, urging the recipients to help out the flight attendant because they are only set to warn little more than $27,000 per year before tax. The leaked letter is being provided…
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    Any company that intentionally underpays their employees so that they require govt assistance to live should be billed the full cost of all assistance that employee receives.

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      I think that minimum wage being a livable salary, is less complicated.

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        I imagine that’s part of their point? At least that is how I took it.

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        UBI could be even less complicated. If everyone were guaranteed a livable income, a minimum wage might not even be necessary.

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          I like Scott Galloway’s take: SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE!

          Call UBI a negative tax and Republican voters will listen.

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          Just enough to pay rent and utilities. Then only corporations will own property.

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        Por que no los dos

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      Billed double. Make it hurt.

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      *should be nationalized and sold off, and its mismanagers prosecuted

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      The wealthy NEED the airports to keep running so not to interfere with their vacation plan. Starving kids on the other hand can simply be rewoven as doormats by any good capitalist.

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