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Article: Flight Attendants Push for Workplace Protections
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 8, 1999
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Association of Flight
Attendants, AFL-CIO, today announced the launch of a major campaign
to win the same health and safety protections for flight attendants
that other workers already enjoy. Flight attendants are not
protected by the nation's OSHA laws.
"Other American workers are assured that they can go to work and
expect to come home safe and sound -- except flight attendants.
That's not right," said Patricia Friend, president of the
Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO. "If other workers become
ill or are injured on the job, they are assured their employer has
to answer to OSHA. But the airlines don't."
The predominantly female flight ...