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Flight attendants in European airlines are surely unionized to at least the extent the US ones are. That doesn't seem right to me. Maybe you could make the ar

Flight attendants in European airlines are surely unionized to at least the extent the US ones are. That doesn't seem right to me. Maybe you could make the argument that European airlines have grown more in recent decades or something, but then you'd be able to see that per-airline (e.g. Virgin is mostly new hires relative to United, but Lufthansa certainly isn't).

amadeuspagel 6y ago
> Flight attendants in European airlines are surely unionized to at least the extent the US ones are. Can't find any data on this, but it doesn't seem obvious. The largest european airline is ryanair, which is an irish company. And "employers in Ireland can face [...] lesser constraints in terms of trade union involvement."[1] [1]: https://www.matheson.com/news-and-insights/article/key-distinctions-between-the-employment-law-landscape-in-the-u.s.-and-irela https://www.matheson.com/news-and-insights/article/key-disti...
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  Ryanair is fairly unusual.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Local European governments are also very keen bringing into Ryanair attention that there are laws to obey. If anything they are the gold standard on how to do court gimmicks.
mschuster91 6y ago
US airlines have largely consolidated over the last decades and new airplanes don't require as much staff as before (basically cramming an airliner full with cheap seats instead of more staff-intensive premium offerings) which means there were layoff series.