Make a call, support an airport worker

[Omaha Steve]

From email

Steven--

Today, airport workers in New York are marching and they need your help, Steven.

Baggage handlers, security officers and wheelchair attendants, who work for airline contractor Aviation Safeguards, are making their voices heard right now outside the offices of giant corporations like British Airways and Delta Air Lines.

Like thousands of airport workers across the country, they are fighting for a better future and to improve the quality of services they provide for passengers at airports through the right to stick together in a union, higher wages, and benefits. But they have faced threats and intimidation from their employer. They have suffered wage theft.

That’s not right – especially not for the people servicing a huge corporation like British Airways. As Aviation Safeguards workers stand up, we should stand with them and amplify their voices.

Steven, will you make a call to British Airways at 1-888-979-7394 and tell them their contractor Aviation Safeguards should treat their workers right?

You can tell them that you are calling in support of baggage handlers, security officers and wheelchair attendants, at British Airways’ contractor in New York, Aviation Safeguards. The workers are fighting for higher wages, benefits and the right to stick together in a union. Not only are they making too little, they have been forced to file lawsuits against their company for wage theft. British Airways should urge its contractor, Aviation Safeguards, to treat their workers right.

Santo Bonanno, an Aviation Safeguards baggage handler who bravely went on strike last month, said, “We already make poverty wages and do backbreaking work. I can’t even afford to move out of my mother’s house and when I come to work they threaten me for fighting for a better life. It’s ridiculous.”

And I agree with Santo – it is ridiculous; companies like British Airways should take responsibility for the contractors they employ. Will you make a call to British Airways at 1-888-979-7394 and tell them to urge Aviation Safeguards to treat their workers right?

In solidarity,

Valarie Long
Executive Vice President, SEIU



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