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Flying Food Workers Deserve the LA Living Wage! E action!
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https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/flying-food-workers-deserve-the-la-living-wage
To make Paté Champagne, I hand-mix ground pork and chicken liver with ginger, eggs, white pepper and garlic. Then I mix it all together with wine, brandy and oil. I place thyme and bay leaves in a casserole dish Ive already lined with bacon, pour in the pork-liver mix, and place it in the oven. Rafael Leon
A chef for decades, Rafael earns just $10.25 per hour in his job with Flying Food Group in Los Angelesfar below the wage under the LA Living Wage Ordinance for airport workers. Rafael is proud of his work, but he earns so little that, even working full time, he depends on food stamps to feed his family. They live in a converted garage.
Does that make sense to you?
Support Rafael and his coworkers: Sign the petition calling on Flying Food Group to pay them the LA Living Wage!
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/flying-food-workers-deserve-the-la-living-wage
Also extraordinary is the fact that you wont find Rafaels finished meals anywhere on the ground. His employer, Flying Food Group, is an airline caterer that counts major international airlines like Air France-KLM, Etihad and Virgin Australia among its clients.
Though they cater to an airline industry that continues to report record profits, and in spite of enforcement efforts by the City of LA, Flying Food Group refuses to pay all of its employees the Living Wage. As a result, some of the companys workers earn more than $6 per hour below the $15.84 for employees without company-provided benefits.
Its time for the airline catering industry to do better. Just as fellow industry workers at Gate Gourmet and Sky Chefs rallied last month for better health care, Flying Food workers are taking action. Ten of them have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company alleging that they should be paid the airport Living Wage. The suit could, if successful, be worth more than $15 million in back wages Will you support them?
Sign the petition to tell Flying Food Group and the airlines that contract its services that catering workers deserve the LA Living Wage!
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Flying Food Workers Deserve the LA Living Wage! E action! (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2015
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