In a huge victory for transportation workers, a motion to\noverturn a 9th Circuit Court ruling extending meal and break protections to\nCalifornia-based flight crews, was denied by the Supreme Court. The Court also\nrejected a similar case from airlines seeking an exemption from Washington\nstate\u2019s sick leave law. Airline workers will receive the same state-level protections\nas their colleagues in other industries as a result of these decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under California law, employers are required to provide\nemployees with ten-minute rest breaks for every four hours worked, as well as\nthirty-minute meal periods for every five hours worked. These meal and rest\nrequirements have been in place for over a decade and help to ensure the health\nand safety of workers while preventing harms associated through overwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, airline executives and their lobbyists have been\nattempting to deny flight attendants and other crew members these laws by\nfalsely claiming that federal law pre-empted states from applying labor\nprotections to this group. Airlines have lost this argument in nearly every\nlower-level court and today\u2019s final decision by the Supreme Court makes it\nclear state legislatures can improve airline workers lives through state-level\npowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe TWU has been leading the charge to prevent these cuts\nfrom happening, not only in California, but in Illinois, New York, and\nelsewhere\u201d said TWU International President John Samuelsen. \u201cIt should go\nwithout saying that every worker deserves rest and meal breaks, every worker\ndeserves sick leave and time to care for their families, every worker deserves\naccess to quality healthcare and a minimum wage. The airlines have been wrong\non this from the start and the TWU is going to ensure that workers assert these\nrights in every state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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