My coworkers and I just won our first contract covering over 1,500 airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). I have worked at PHL as a wheelchair agent for over 10 years and before we won our union, airport workers like me were breaking our backs to make poverty wages with no job security. That’s why
The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved an increase in the minimum wage for workers at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports to $19 per hour by 2023. That figure, if finalized by the board during a second vote in June, would be the highest minimum wage at airports
After years of pleading for higher wages, thousands of workers at the airports that serve New York City are on the verge of securing one of the highest minimum wages in the country. The directors of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airports, agreed on Thursday to consider raising
As the Supreme Court hears arguments in Janus v AFSCME, an effort driven by billionaires to rig the economy even more against working people, I’m standing with my community and co-workers to say loud and clear that Americans need unions now. We won’t be divided. Instead, we’re sticking together and using our power in numbers
During the first weeks of 2018, subcontracted service staff at Virginia’s Reagan National and Dulles International airports got a raise. So did baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, and wheelchair attendants at Boston’s Logan airport, who also staged a 36-hour strike to defend their right to organize. Soon, under laws passed last year, workers at other airports across the country, from Chicago
By standing up to have their voices included, forgotten wheelchair attendants, cabin cleaners, security officers, baggage handlers, and other contracted airport workers are launching a social media campaign to add a wider, more accurate perspective to United Airlines’ Olympic-themed superhero ad campaign, which celebrates the contributions of United employees but overlooks the contribution that subcontracted
Now, just as in United’s campaign, contracted airport workers are often overlooked, especially when it comes to wages, benefits and the freedom to form a union. While airport workers provided $13.2 billion in profit to the top 6 U.S. carriers last year, they are paid so little that most qualify for public assistance just to
Current and former cabin cleaners interviewed by The New York Times describe a work environment where pay is at or near the minimum wage, morale is low and turnover is high. The Service Employees International Union has been working with cabin cleaners in campaigns to improve benefits, working conditions and win unionization. Sameer Yousef, a
(CNN)Anny Gonzalez says she experienced in 2013 what so many women are now publicly opening up about in the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement: she was sexually harassed by her boss, tried to reject unwelcome advances and was eventually fired from her job cleaning planes at Boston’s Logan Airport. On Tuesday night, Gonzalez — dressed in
ne year after a man went on a shooting rampage in Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport (FLL), killing five and injuring six, a push for laws requiring more emergency training of airport employees is gaining momentum. Last month, the Broward County Commission, which runs the Fort Lauderdale airport, instructed the county’s legal team to draft an