Exploited contractors who push wheelchairs and clean cabins are making themselves seen and heard.
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Airports couldn’t run without thousands of passenger-service workers like Angis, who clean airplane cabins, help handle baggage, and assist unaccompanied minors, among other duties. Angis is a wheelchair assistant, helping passengers with disabilities get to and from their flights. It can be physically taxing work, and she does it for $12 an hour, up from the $6 wage she earned when she started working at the airport 20 years ago.
Passenger-service workers want the Senate to include language in its reauthorization of the FAA budget that would raise their wages, and give them money for health-care benefits and paid time off, putting them on par with the federal government’s contract workers. The campaign has been led by a coalition of unions including UNITE HERE and SEIU, the latter of which represents nearly 40,000 passenger-service workers.
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