United Replaces Unionized Baggage Handlers With Minimum Wage Contractors, Things Instantly Fall Apart “Free Market” hardliners may not like to hear it, but the old adage is true: “You get what you pay for,” and paying people next-to-nothing to do an extremely labor-intensive job won’t get you many willing applicants. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Denver right now, where travel-wary passengers getting off their flights are discovering that their checked bags won’t be coming out in a timely fashion, if at all. One survivor told the Denver Post that the situation was so bad in baggage claim that people were on the cusp of rioting. “Ed Tonini of Louisville, Ky., flew to Denver on a United Express flight this week. His small bag, which he checked at the gate, took about 30 minutes to retrieve. But nothing could have prepared him for the baggage claim area, which he said was utter chaos. ‘It was a comedy. People were ready to riot — there were children crying and hundreds of people that were very testy, sitting on the floor, waiting, and no United people there to tell us what was going on,’ he said. ‘Our flight was a little over two hours, and it took more than two hours to get our bags.’ US minimum wage = $7.25 USD = $9.2539 NZD
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 01:05:47 +0000
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