Contract workers at profitable companies are excluded from profit-sharing bonuses

Evidence

However, Bastian didn’t mention the ninety thousand contract workers—who push Delta passengers in wheelchairs, operate Delta connection regional flights, and at some airports check in customers and handle their baggage—who, because they were not direct employees, didn’t get a share of the profits. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 373

Categorization

• SHARE: The Delta profit-sharing detail with 90,000 excluded contract workers is a specific, vivid example for someone interested in labor economics or corporate governance.
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