1,000 New York City Airport Workers to Go on Strike Wednesday: Union

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NBC NY

By Karen Matthews

More than 1,000 subcontracted airport security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at the city's two major airports plan to strike starting Wednesday night, according to a union that seeks to represent them.

Officials with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union said picketing would begin at Kennedy Airport at 10 p.m. Wednesday and at LaGuardia at 6 a.m. Thursday.

"We are here today to tell you that we are going on strike!" LaGuardia worker Chennee Cooper said Tuesday at a news conference at the union's Manhattan offices.

Cooper said she works 40 hours a week but lives in a shelter because she cannot afford an apartment.

FULL story at link.

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LaGuardia Airport

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[MADem]

1. This is going to get interesting if they can't head it off....

That said, ten bucks an hour isn't enough for them, those are poverty wages in NYC--fifteen is a start but more would be better.

[Hulk]

2. Wish them well...

But this now makes THREE airports I hope I NEVER have to travel through again in my lifetime: O'Hara, Kennedy and LaGuardia.

Without a doubt, those are the three most rude, unreliable airports in the country...or at least of those I've had experience. with.

[Telcontar]

3. I would take any of them over Charles DeGaul in France

If had but one nuclear weapon...

Travelers would raise statues in my honor.

Worst airport in the world.