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Article: Flight attendants to Congress: `Help'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 7, 1991
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Flight attendants are considered safety professionals when it
comes to random-drug-testing regulations, but not when it comes to
limiting the number of hours they can work.
Unions that represent 70,000 flight attendants don't think
that's right. Fifty members of Congress agree. They have signed on
to a bill that would require flight attendants to work no more than
14 hours a day and require at least 10 hours off between domestic
flights.
The bill is the brainchild of the Coalition of Flight Attendants
Unions, a group that was formed in 1988 to push for limits on flight
attendant duty time.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which has regulations
limiting work hours for pilots, ...