Heather Poole's Blog, page 4
June 26, 2018
Airlines Slow to Respond to Health and Safety Standards for Flight Attendants
Initially, the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study set out to learn how flame retardants in the home affect the endocrine system. Who better to study than people overexposed to flame retardants? Airplanes are covered in flame retardant. Enter flight attendants. Harvard teamed up with the Association of Flight Attendantsunion (AFA) and surveyed hundreds of flight attendants…
Harvard Proves Flight Attendants Have Higher Rates of Cancer due to Radiation AND OTHER CARCINOGENS
Several news sites have reported flight attendants have higher rates of cancer due to radiation and OTHER CARCINOGENS. It’s that last part you need to focus on. These stories in the news mention a study conducted by Harvard. Initially doctors at Harvard who wanted to prove flame retardants in the home affect the endocrine system,…
May 30, 2018
Dear Kamala Harris, Our Airline Uniform Made Us Sick
Dear Kamala Harris, I’d like to say thank you. Thank you for caring about people, all people, regardless of race, age, gender, social status or sexual preference. Thank you for standing up and fighting to make this world a better place by shedding light on a serious problem we have in the U.S. with toxic…
January 10, 2018
Harvard Links Chemicals in Clothing to Flight Attendant Health Complaints
To those who’ve been following the uniform crisis over the last year, I want to say thank you for your support. You’ll never know how much it means to me and thousands of other American Airlines employees. Some of you have asked how you can help. Making people aware of what’s going on is half…
January 8, 2018
Welcome to the Club Nobody Wants to Join
Welcome to the club nobody wants to be a part of. That’s how we greet newbies who join our support group for American Airlines employees who’ve had reactions to toxic chemicals in the new uniform. As of Jan. 1, 2018, there are 9,688 members in our private Facebook group. Since the new uniform rolled out on Sept. 20, 2016, thousands of…
October 17, 2017
Brace Yourself: In Defense of “Hysterical” Flight Attendants
An AirAsia plane “plummeted” from the sky, and in every news report I read, passengers complained that flight attendants panicked. I’ve been a flight attendant for over 20 years. I have a hard time believing the crew panicked. They may have looked shocked, but panicked? Define panicked. One passenger told Seven News network television: “Hostesses started screaming:…
September 21, 2017
Fly Me: It’s 2017, so why are flight attendants still being sexualized?
I’m a flight attendant. My job is to make sure passengers get from point A to point B as safely as possible, which is why I’ve been trained to handle any number of emergency situations, the kind that airlines don’t want you to think about when you’re in the air. This is why airlines…
July 5, 2017
When it Comes to Flight Attendants, Why is the Media so Sexist?
“YOU HATE SEX, DIRTY DIRTY SEX…” That’s what a stranger tweeted to me out of the blue last year. I remember staring at the computer screen and thinking, what in the world…? Because I like sex. Why did she think I hated sex? Someone else followed up with something about me disliking attractive women. Or…
My Uniform Made Me Sick. Could The Same Thing Happen To a Hockey Star?
On Friday nights in Dallas, when I was in high school, I liked to go to free concerts in the West End. My friends and I would dress up, walk around and basically goof off. On one of those nights a good-looking man handed me a rose. He’d bought it on the street from a…
Connect the Dots: Can Airplanes and Toxic Uniforms be Linked to Thyroid Disorders and Infertility?
A couple of weeks ago the New York Times published a story about cats that have hypothyroidism. A few people tweeted the link to me. One person wrote that it reminded him of me and what’s going on with the new uniforms at American Airlines. According to the article, feline hypothyroidism didn’t exist when Dr. Mark…
