Posted on 10/09/2014 8:55:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nearly 200 airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at a New York City airport overnight, striking over health and safety issues that include fears over possible exposure to Ebola.
The protest involves Air Serv cabin cleaners in Terminal D at New York’s LaGuardia airport, a contractor that serves Delta, as well as supporting workers from LaGuardia and JFK International airports.
Protesting workers carried signs and chanted during today’s rally, protesting against conditions that they say often find them encountering hypodermic needles, vomit and blood.
Meanwhile, the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ was scheduled to conduct infectious disease training today for airport cabin cleaners, terminal cleaners and wheelchair attendants.
"The training will cover current guidance from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA)," the union said in a release. "This includes guidelines for cleaning airplane cabins and lavatories, for cleaning an area with possible Ebola exposure, and for determining which equipment employers are required to supply."
The union added, "Amid rising fears of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the training will help workers better identify infectious disease hazards and protect against exposure and spread."
Such a response comes as additional screening is scheduled to begin at JFK and four other main U.S. airports, a means of trying to catch any travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries who may be carrying the disease.
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You’ve reminded me of my idea to SAVE THE POST OFFICE. Replace the current OVERPAID mail delivery people with illegals. This would SAVE THE POST OFFICE FROM FINANCIAL RUIN. If the Federal workers stand by Eboma’s policies, LET THEM GET FIRED BY HIS POLICIES.
“1) What if this cabin crew strike catches on in the other airports?”
Many airports have unionized cleaning crews. Same union as the mechanics (IAM} and you can bet they are watching this very closely. There WILL be a walkout over this, you can bank on it.
” You’d be bitching even more if the cabins were not disinfected adequately.”
Disinfected? In 15 minutes? Puleeze. It is all they can do to get the used air sick bags out of the seat backs and scrape the turds off the ceilings in the lavs.
Planes make as many as 8 flights a day with as little as 30 minutes between flights if they are running behind, there is no time to disinfect them. Look at the upholstery color and the carpet color next time you are on a plane, notice it is the same color as dirt, filth and vomit ? Those colors are chosen for a reason, so the stains don’t show so bad.
If just one becomes infected this pos should be impeached.
Precisely my point. If the airlines owned the liability for transporting contagion, this situation would be totally different. Instead, the taxpayers subsidize and own that risk.
” Precisely my point. If the airlines owned the liability for transporting contagion, this situation would be totally different. Instead, the taxpayers subsidize and own that risk.”
The Airlines are required to provide a safe environment for their employees and passengers. If contagion is traced to aircraft related exposure, they have nowhere to hide.
I support them in this strike and I wonder why the cabin stewards too pilots flying those flights think they are so immune?
I just need to figure out how to pay off my mortgage for the farm, then I would basically be a hermit with my 2 kittehs and whatever income and goods I can produce on said farm. It’s not an ideal situation being that I took on the debt burden and have all this land and a house to maintain, alone... but I was tired of waiting for the comfort of a good woman to “share the experience” with me.
I probably need to make friends with the local Amish and see if they have any 18 year-old daughters looking for a farm to run and a homefire to keep burning... yeah, good luck with that one.
Fixed it.
This is the kind of thing unions were supposed to be about until they got all political and power hungry.
As determined by the FAA, which means not. See "9-11."
If the airlines were responsible for all of that why do you think TSA is there? Sheesh.
If contagion is traced to aircraft related exposure, they have nowhere to hide.
Oh really? So there's a lawsuit against an airline in progress for conducting the entry of Mr. Duncan? That's news to me.
Duncan did not contract the disease on an airplane. If the guy sitting next to him ends up getting it from Duncan on the plane ride, it is GAME ON!
Please see OSHA rules for safe working environment, it applies to airlines. And the 911 vics were compensated by the government in return for dropping liability against airlines.
TSA is there Precisely because it was the airlines who were responsible for gate security prior to 911. The airlines couldn’t drop that hot potato fast enough
Who said he did? The people who would have standing to sue would be those who were affected by the airline's transportation of Mr. Duncan to the US.
Please see OSHA rules for safe working environment, it applies to airlines.
Appealing to a corrupt system to socialize risk is not an argument in favor of your position, it reinforces mine.
And the 911 vics were compensated by the government in return for dropping liability against airlines.
911 happened (among other reasons) because the FAA approved cheesy cockpit doors, thus owning the risk upon behalf of the taxpayer.
That's socialism sirrah. Apparently you approve.
“911 happened (among other reasons) because the FAA approved cheesy cockpit doors, thus owning the risk upon behalf of the taxpayer. “
Uh, no and no.
Until 911 there was no requirement for cockpit security.. Some part 135 carriers didn’t even have seperate cockpits from the cabin.
The airlines have no liability exposure for what a passenger does than UPS d for what a recipient does with his merchandise once he receives. Laws on Common Carriers applies here, not some made up fault finding crusade.
What I am referring to is contract LAW, not sure where you get socialism.
Supposed to read “Part 121”, but 135 is also a commercial air carrier, just not scheduled.
God are you dense. There was no cockpit security because the FAA owned that risk. An insurer would never have tolerated it simply because the Israelis had already proven the need.
The airlines have no liability exposure for what a passenger does than UPS d for what a recipient does with his merchandise once he receives.
That's because the taxpayer owns the risk.
What I am referring to is contract LAW, not sure where you get socialism.
Clearly not. Regulatory government, in many respects, exists as a series of industrial subsidies via socialized risk, a concept you clearly do not understand. Since when does Article I Section 8 authorize the Congress to run an insurance business? Try another forum, you are clearly no constitutionalist.
I noted in a post a week ago that the airplane cleaners would be at a huge risk for Ebola contamination.
They should get Obama and Holder to clean the airplanes!
Precisely.
There are many, many avenues of risk for this very virulent disease.
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