EXCLUSIVE: Honolulu Airport security guards join local union; fight "meager" benefits
Source: Hawaii News Now
By Keoki Kerr HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Security guards at Honolulu International Airport voted overwhelmingly to join a Hawaii-based union Wednesday, joining neighbor island colleagues who have already done the same. The union's president said he hopes to negotiate a master agreement to raise the guards' pay and improve what he called “meager” benefits.
The traffic control officers at state airports are paid $13 an hour and the guards who carry guns and are assigned to security checkpoints are paid more -- $19 an hour.
The Securitas company has a contract to provide security at all airports statewide for about $35 million a year, a deal that expires next February.
"Our guards here at the airports are hard working people. We want to help them. And we believe that a grass-roots, local union is really the only way to do it," said Richard Dods, the president of the Hawaii-based International Union of Security and Protective Officers.
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