New York City airport workers overwhelming vote to join 32BJ SEIU, US' largest service workers union

[hrmjustin]

EDGAR SANDOVAL and. CORKY SIEMASZKO


Thousands of poorly paid airport workers voted Monday to join the nation’s largest service workers union.

As former New York Mayor David Dinkins and other supporters looked on, the security guards, cleaners and porters cast their lot with 32BJ SEIU.

“This is just the beginning,” union President Hector Figueroa said as the workers rallied at the Riverside Church. “The fight is just getting started.”

Some 4,051 workers out of 6,100 voted to become part of the union, Figueroa said. They work for 13 subcontractors at LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark airports.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/airport-workers-vote-join-32bj-seiu-article-1.1789162#ixzz31bk3wynW

[HockeyMom]

1. $9/hr. for Security Guards at JFK

with those Security Agencies. My daughter went, and promptly walked out. Retail Security makes more than double that, and that is on LI, not Manhattan.