The day after the siege on Capitol Hill, passengers on a shuttle bus with a Black flight attendant assailed her with racial slurs, according to a union for flight attendants. The tension is at a level flight attendants have not seen before, said Paul Hartshorn Jr., a veteran attendant and a spokesperson for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants union. In the aftermath of the riot, airlines, flight attendants and authorities moved to prevent similar altercations. More than 45,000 workers lost not only their paychecks, but medical benefits, according to the Association of Flight Attendants. “If not, I don’t know how a lot of us are going to make it.”‘People feel a bit more emboldened.’At least 1,000 flight attendants have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic started, according to the Association of Flight Attendants.

Source: bd News24 January 26, 2021 15:33 UTC