Southwest Airlines fires too many people, labor union leader says (thestreet.com)

July 24, 2017

The president of the Transport Workers Union, the largest labor union at Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) has written a scathing letter that condemns “intolerable and cancerous” working conditions for the carrier’s groundworkers and decries mistreatment including 2,700 disciplinary actions and 468 terminations since January 2015.

“Groundworkers are flagrantly mistreated and abused by management,” wrote John Samuelsen, president of the New York-based union that represents 12,000 Southwest groundworkers as well as 15,000 flight attendants. The letter refers to the ground workers, members of TWU Local 555.

In 2017, Samuelsen said, “Southwest is writing up nearly three workers per day and firing one worker every other day.”

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