
IT’S SIMPLE. TO MAKE AIR TRAVEL SAFER, PAY AIRPORT WORKERS MORE
Between 2002 and 2012, average real wages for U.S. airport workers fell by 15 percent. Wages of baggage handlers fell by almost half, from over $19 an hour to $10.60—as the share of those jobs outsourced to contract companies more than tripled, reaching 84 percent of all baggage handlers. Nationally, more than one-third of cleaning