Posted on 11/28/2016 11:57:11 AM PST by mdittmar
Cabin cleaners, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at major U.S. hubs will join thousands of other low-wage airport workers in a national day of protest Tuesday to demand better wages.
Authorities say the demonstrations, planned for airports in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and elsewhere will have minimal impacts on operations, but workers are hoping they will draw the attention of travelers returning from the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Workers at Chicagos OHare International Airport are taking more serious steps and planning to strike.
This could be the largest demonstration of service industry workers as part of the growing labor movement known as the Fight for $15.
Organizers say their message to Washington, President-elect Trump and other elected officials is that they wont stay quiet in regard to efforts to block wage increases, end healthcare options and deport immigrants.
We will take our first steps together to fight back for our families and communities, Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union told members in a call to join the Nov. 29 national action. Together we will keep fighting for $15 (an hour minimum wage), a union, racial, immigrant, and environmental justice.
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Flying into O’Hare on Wednesday, crappy timing. We plan to bring carry on bags only and I don’t need a wheelchair.
Look for alot of media and very few, union, racial, immigrant,environmental justice,blm,illegal immigrants.
unions are not growing,they are dieing.
I have seen up here the scum that call themselves SEIU, and what they will do to further entrench their scumminess in institutions that are not unionized.
They set up a billboard truck outside the main entrance to a Boston (non-unionized) hospital with wording that drew an uniformed user to conclude the hospital had been engaging in Medicare Fraud (They had done no such thing)
The head of the SEIU at the time (Andrew Stern, SEIU President) regarding the push to unionize the hospital said: “We will unionize your workforce, or we will destroy your reputation.”
But even worse was his statement that if they didn’t allow unionization: “We will destroy the relationship between the patients and the physicians at the hospital”.
Heinous scumbags.
100%
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