Airport Workers Take a Stand for Good Jobs
Thousands of workers at JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International and the Fort Lauderdale airports are uniting in the fight to raise their pay, benefit and training standards. Many essential passenger services like security, screening, baggage handling, and cabin cleaning are subcontracted out to contractors that often pay wages that keep workers in perpetual poverty, provide very limited training and opportunity for advancement.
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New York City’s 5,000 school cleaners keep our public school buildings safe, sanitary and well-maintained. But they have been working without a contract and a raise for five years.
Thousands of workers at JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International and the Fort Lauderdale airports are uniting in the fight to raise their pay, benefit and training standards. Many essential passenger services like security, screening, baggage handling, and cabin cleaning are subcontracted out to contractors that often pay wages that keep workers in perpetual poverty, provide very limited training and opportunity for advancement.
We’ve spent decades establishing decent pay and benefit standards for property service workers in New York City’s residential sector – and we’re not about to let them slip. When new buildings join the cityscape, like the seven luxury condo buildings that TF Cornerstone is constructing on the Long Island City waterfront, we are right there [...]
Contracts covering well over 10,000 private security officers in New York City expired in the spring of 2012. We stood together – with security officers in other 32BJ cities and 32BJ members from the commercial, residential, and schools sectors – with one purpose: to make our jobs better and our future brighter. We built a [...]
Things have been quiet through the holidays at 350 East 52nd Street but that does not mean the fight is over. 32BJ members decided to go back to work this past October while the union continues to spar with the company over the lack of benefits at this building due to an unsigned union contract. [...]
The price is high for workers – not just buyers – at AvalonBay luxury apartment buildings. The company and its contractors have a long list of safety violations during construction and its property service workers often lack access to affordable health insurance. We’re standing together to put an end to unsafe conditions and to make [...]
Con Ed presents itself as a “public service” corporation, but this company is really about private gain, with profits that topped $1 billion in 2011. Con Ed CEO Kevin Burke had total compensation last year of nearly $11 million, up 6.7 percent from the prior year. Meanwhile, Con Ed contracts with cleaning companies that pay [...]
