SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers

Re:SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Co... by ghiculescu on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:14PM (#34192205)

How does tipping improve their bargaining power? Seems to me like it would weaken it (“why do you need a higher base wage? You get so many tips!”)

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Re:SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Co... by toomuchtodo on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:21PM (#34192285)

It doesn't. The tipping is the only thing I can do in the short term to help, because those tips go to workers immediately (versus the lengthy sales cycle of labor improvements). My apologies that wasn't more clear.

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Re:SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Co... by maxbond on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:41PM (#34192491)

If course, it only goes to workers, when it isn't stolen by the company.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-06-instacart-revises-pay-po...

As far as I know Instacart has stopped doing this, and many other apps were busted for this, but it's utterly, utterly shameful.

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