Airport Workers Can’t Afford Rent or Food as Travel Prices—and Profits—Soar A generation ago, aviation was seen as bulwark of unionized middle-class jobs in the modern global service economy. On October 2, a global movement for airport workers took flight at the world’s largest transit hubs, from Seattle to Sydney. Workers who keep airports running
Airport workers around the world are fighting for change. By raising standards of airport work they are simultaneously helping to improve safety, security and service for passengers. Read the full report. Unions across the world are fighting for, and have won, economic increases for workers. This results in a reduction in turnover and a more
Airlines everywhere report record profits, but airport contract workers haven’t seen healthy wage or benefit gains. Next week, those workers are joining together in North and South America, Europe, and Asia to bring attention to their plight. AP Photo/Robert E. Klein Jet Blue Airlines baggage handlers offload baggage from an Airbus 320 at gate
Airport workers have a big announcement: On October 2, airport workers at 40 airports in 13 countries are coming together to take on the airlines that are trying to hold us back. We are fed up with airlines like United driving our wages down and their profits up. I’m a Wheelchair Attendant and Security Officer
Airport workers in New York and New Jersey won the highest minimum wage in U.S. history–$19 an hour Just one day after airport workers in SEIU-USWW won $17 an hour at SFO, airport workers in New York and New Jersey won the highest minimum wage in U.S. history–$19 an hour. The victory is proof: coming together
Airport workers just keep winning. More than 800 service workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport just ratified a new union contract by a near unanimous vote that improves our jobs even more. The airport workers—white, Black, and brown—who make Sea-Tac run have proven that when we come together across our differences, anything is possible. We were
It’s around noon at the Marriott Hotel next to Dulles International Airport (IAD). Bus after bus pulls in front of the ballroom and rapidly gets filled. Hundreds of workers; Black, brown, white; immigrants and native-born; union members and soon-to-be members who work for airline services contractor Huntleigh USA are mad as hell and ready to let the
To make my job better I started working as a Security Agent for Global Security at JFK about a year ago. I secure aircraft, ramps, and baggage rooms. You have to have sharp eyes out there. I was surprised how vibrant the airport is. You meet a lot of interesting people. But I was also
I’m a Wheelchair Attendant at LAX and an Executive Board member of SEIU-USWW. Today, I’m in Amsterdam to meet with airport workers from all over the world who are standing up to the same global corporations that are wrecking our jobs. What I see is like a mirror image. Just like in the U.S., airlines
Airport workers around the world keep airports clean, help passengers get to their destination, and secure airplanes and ramps. We work hard to keep the airports running, but airlines are taking from us and putting it in their pockets. Baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants, security agents, and other airport workers are joining together across the globe