"Airline Food Workers Want To Go On Strike. American Airlines Wants To Stay Out Of It", 24 July 2019

American Airlines has...denied it holds any say in negotiations between an airline catering food subcontractor and its workers. But workers say the airline has more authority over its subcontractors than it claims...

...last month, airline food workers voted to authorize a strike...citing low wages and high health insurance costs...UNITE HERE, a union representing...airline catering workers...called on American Airlines to increase worker wages and provide better health insurance, contending that LSG Sky Chefs is a major subcontractor for the airline...

...[An] American Airlines spokesman...said...“...Our catering vendor is negotiating with the union...American is not involved in these negotiations and does not control wages at its catering vendors.”...

...UNITE HERE’s general vice president Wendi Walsh...said American Airlines is being “disingenuous”..."...they need to take responsibility for these employees and not try to find their way around accountability because these are not direct employees...”

LSG Sky Chefs said...“Our staff has engaged in...negotiations...The stumbling block...is the union’s demands for added wages and benefits...While we have proposed increases in wages as well as other benefits, our company could not possibly meet the union’s demands...We will continue to negotiate....”