'If I got hit by a car or a stray bullet, I'll tell the ambulance to take me to Dulles to work because otherwise I won't have a job when I come back.' UnionsForAll GoodAirports
Jessica CorbettContracted airport workers—including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, security officers, and wheelchair agents—in more than 20 U.S. cities staged coordinated demonstrations Wednesday to call for higher wages, better benefits, and the right to unionize.
"I'm only paid $12 an hour. I work a lot of hours and some days I work so late that I just sleep over at the airport," he explained."I can't afford a car, rent, and to send money home to my family in Sudan. I like working with passengers, but I'm so tired all the time. That won't fly any longer." Blair, who suffers from arthritis and heart problems, highlighted that"we sacrificed our lives working through Covid, but we still don't get benefits and must come to work sick because we can't afford to lose pay."
Acknowledge that airlines have the ability and responsibility to end poverty-wage jobs and inequality through the system; "Amid a national reckoning and wave of workers exercising their power, airport workers are building on years of organizing and asserting themselves as the newest force in the surging labor movement," declared SEIU international president Mary Kay Henry ahead of the protests."They're standing up to airline CEOs, raising their voices to demand respect, protections, and pay that they can raise a family on.
"As an immigrant who spent 10 years in refugee camps, I've faced plenty of hardship in my life, but none as great as the last two years," said Ababuti Olok, a skycap worker and wheelchair attendant at Boston Logan International Airport who lives in Chelsea with his wife and two sons.
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