Hundreds of airport workers — wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and more — protested in over a dozen cities, from Dallas to Chicago.
The contracted workers are demanding that American Airlines, United and other major U.S. airlines sign a pledge to ensure that the companies they contract with pay fair wages to airport workers and provide affordable health insurance and benefits like paid sick days.
“I try to save some money, but I’ve got to pay rent, bills,” Omer Hussein, a wheelchair attendant at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, told HuffPost last week. He makes $12 an hour working for Prospect, a company contracted by United, American and other airlines at that Texas hub. “Just we need some respect: more money, health insurance,” Hussein said, adding that he lives with two roommates and sends money home to Sudan. He gets no paid sick time off.
Laura Moran, a spokesperson for the SEIU — a union that represents over 30,000 workers at airports — said airlines need to “step up and take responsibility” for airport workers and require contractors to “make sure everyone from cabin cleaners to wheelchair workers have the ability to not be in poverty, to take a day off when they’re sick and have the health care they need.
A United spokesperson said the company “require[s] our vendors to comply with all federal, state and local laws” and has a “strong track record of working closely with unions.”WHAT DO WE WANT? JUSTICE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!
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