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 Chicago’s O’Hare 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 won’t 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Look for the union label;)
This should be sent back to the states. $15 in NYC is peanuts, but much better in Mississippi.
“Airport workers at major U.S. hubs to join Fight for $15 protests Tuesday”
Just remember, there are people that are willing to do what you do for less just for the benefits...keep that in mind when you are “ppppprrrrrroooooottttttttteeeeeessssssttttttiiinnnngggg.”
THESE PEOPLE RUNNING THIS UNION ARE SCUM OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
If this is true then the positions held by the workers in question are not actually needed, right? And if they are not needed then their jobs can be eliminated - and then it won't matter to them whether the job paid 10.00/hr, 15.00/her or 115.00/hr because THEY won't have the job any more.
It works for me.
really? $2.10 per hour?
Tips are about $50/hour.
And I am not joking.
Why do they make minimum wage? Because that is all the job is worth.
Under federal law, an employer is allowed to pay a lower minimum wage -- only $2.13 an hour -- if the employee routinely earns at least $30 per month in tips. But the employer can do this only if the worker's wages plus tips add up to at least the minimum wage for each hour worked.
So, there might be something to this. But if she's not making enough money, then she surely has the option to go find employment elsewhere.....
Speaking solely for myself....I usually tip skycaps pretty well. Would like my stuff to get where it needs to be in all in one piece. I imagine that I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
The current minimum wage in New Jersey is $8.38 per hour,$2.10 per hour must be what she makes after the union takes their cut.
Waiters and waitresses rarely make minimum wage as the tips are good to great (except in North Dakota).
I did a fair amour of waiting in my young life (parents owned a restaurant) and 20+ years of bar tending and bar managing.
I recall many shifts earning $200+ in tips and this was in the 80’s and 90’s. Good pay.
>> ... willing to do what you do for less just for the benefits ...
Sorry, but there are no benefits for most of these folks - they are contract employees. Most airlines dumped all but pilots, mechanics, flight attendants decades ago.
They even figured a way to “Cheap Charlie” the gate agents: Very few of them are full time employees; their payoff is “free” or reduced cost travel.
And, as for a “fair” minimum wage, can you deliver ($15/hour + benefits) of value to your employer? Face it, the “minimum wage” BS is a union driven scam.
Remember Milton Friedman’s comment: “It is immoral to say that people with low skills are not allowed to work.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8Z__o52sk
Why would anyone stay in a job that does not pay at least average wages and have decent benefits?
That is correct. But if the employee does not earn enough in tips to bring them to the hourly minimum wage – federal or state - whichever is higher (NJ’s tipped wage minimum is $2.13 same as the federal), then the employer has to pay the employee the difference to bring them up to the minimum wage as an increased hourly rate – commonly referred to as the “tip true up”.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_States#State_law
As you probably well know, minimum wage jobs are not meant to be stayed in. People should gain experience and move beyond it.
However, liberals and socialists want to have “minimum wage jobs” that allow you to own a car, support a family of four, have cable, Internet, and four cell phones with unlimited data as well as full medical and dental plus three weeks of vacation a year.
Guarantee it: if one of those Bozos read this, their response would be “And what is wrong with that?” They would say anyone who opposes it is into class warfare, and we just have our polo mallets to keep all the unfortunate lower wage earners from climbing higher and taking “our share of the pie”.
Will they break 5 times a day as they pray to mecca during the protests? US airports are Somali refugees number one employer.
>> Why would anyone stay in a job that does not pay at least average wages and have decent benefits?
As a steppingstone to better things. Example: After one year of college, a professor recommended me for a summer fill-in job in the Miami office of McCann-Erickson, a New York ad agency. Didn’t pay much - gas in my car, lunch, and an hour of flying time in a Cessna 150 every Saturday. I worked hard. They liked me. A lot.
Summer ends, and I’ve got a full-time job. Night school, more flying time. Promotion to the production department. 2-1/2 years later, I’m hired away, and have a secretary and an artist at my command. Lotsa money. I’m not yet 21. Get it?
When I was that age, TV ads were “Learn toaster repair. Become a truck driver. A big engine mechanic. Hairdresser. Dental assistant.” Today’s ads? “Injured in an auto accident? Stay on the couch. Live with Mom and Dad. Be a bum. Make a million.” Nice change, huh?
Jerks. I have a friend who’s stranded in Europe due to the Lufthansa strike, now she’s finally gonna fly home tomorrow during THIS.
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