Posted on 10/09/2014 1:25:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Striking workers protest lack of durable gloves and face masks for job that entails ‘contact with a lot of faeces and vomit’
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About 200 airline cabin cleaners walked off their jobs at New York’s LaGuardia airport on Thursday, to protest what they say are working conditions that do not protect against potential Ebola contraction.
“When I do bathroom, I come in contact with tampons which I have to grab with my hand, with a glove that’s so cheap that it breaks easily. I come in contact with feces, a lot of feces and vomit. And we have to clean those bathrooms spotless because they audit those planes,” Wendy Arellano, one of the workers, told the Guardian.
“They expect us, that if a little bit of feces stays on the toilet, that we remove it with our hands because [if not] they will say that bathroom is dirty. And I refuse to do it because I think it’s disgusting and I don’t have the appropriate attire, and because I don’t know what that person has.
“We come in contact with a lot of stuff that is dangerous for our health and obviously they don’t give us the appropriate tools to work with.”(continued)
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the ramifications ....are exploding....
a few years ago our hospital decided either for money reasons of sanitary conditions NOT to have toliet brushes in each of the patient rooms.....which means they really really expect us to reach in to hand clean toliet seats, or commodes with flimsy gloves....don’t ask about the housekeepers because they are territorial and will only do their assigned beds and never go a few extra steps to help other people.....
Who can blame them? The airlines would back out, but they’re afraid of retaliation from the Communist-in-Chief. Hard to blame them, too, but human life comes first.
Shut it down.
” ...a job that entails ‘contact with a lot of faeces and vomit”
With that background the timing to switch careers couldn’t be better. Didn’t I read that Mary Landrieu was looking for a new campaign manager?
Good for them. Make this hurt the airlines until we have some reasonable protections in place.
It’s the airlines themselves who are putting pressure on politicians not to issue a travel ban. They want the $$$$, which is understandable, but there are larger issues to think about now.
I would bet flight attendants will be next.
The Obola Admin. is forcing unwilling potential victims of Ebola, whom they hold in so little regard, not only these poor people but everyone else in every step involved in this instance and now sending our vulnerable military.
This administration have zero consideration for anyone at all but least in their minds are "the little people!"
I wouldn’t stick around for 8 bucks an hour or whatever they get paid
For a change, I am 100% behind the whiners...they have a dirty job and they need more than just adequate equipment.
> they don’t give us the appropriate tools to work with.”
After 3 years on the job they get to use a brush. (line from Monty Python)
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