Airport workers have been on the front lines of the pandemic and the labor struggle in recent years. In Florida, for instance, workers in Tampa, Orlando, Miami and beyond have staged multiple actions over the past year to demand a living wage. Many airport workers in Florida earn as little as $7 an hour, tips included. Now, a new bill, the Good Jobs for Airports Act, could establish national wage and benefits standards for airport workers. To learn more about airport workers’ ongoing fight for dignity and higher wages, freelance journalist and new TRNN contributor McKenna Schueler talks with Scottie Walker, a cabin cleaner at Tampa International Airport and a member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ.
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In solidarity from an ex AFA member
The rich get richer and the poor get polar but as a poor man knows what the rich man can't have.. integrity honor respect
Val Demmings was there for the photo opportunity…she will do nothing for the struggling workers…
Thank you, McKenna, for your work. I appreciate this. So proud of these peeps fighting out here
Of course cheaters need to be exposed, thats a given not a principle to build ma world oN.
IN truth , they wont take the jab to fly and thos e guys are flying multiengine jets, thats skills you cant replace within years and the jab is wha wha no ability to sue for damages, so spin city here, but good job, id hire you tpo spray kids with lsd
Umm disregarding thomas sowell who cannot be debated is a little presumptuous
supply chain nonsense is 5000 thousand years old
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Livable wages. You want to make more money? Go to school. Get into an apprenticeship. Stop b!itching and do something.
On top of all this with the poor workers living paycheck to paycheck, the government did not let these businesses go bankrupt, and thereby the airlines got free money from taxpayers. The CEOs took some golden parachutes because they were bailed out. In a truly capitalistic society, the airlines would have failed, and the government would have allowed the workers to form co-ops BECAUSE WHO IS BETTER TO RUN THE BUSINESS THAN THE WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN DOING IT, BUT ALSO THE WORKERS AS THE OWNERS. Imagine that they hire their own managers and fire them. The manager's position would involve a very different beast. The majority of the problems are from distant owners who do not even run the businesses they dictate.
Personally I'm not in favor of federal bills that dictate wages. Immediately my thought is toward ear marks. I will be reading this bill to see for myself. I can't help but wonder whether the interviewer has absorbed the contents of the bill.
Val Demings is useless. She stands for nothing. Even her campaign ads lack substance. It's no surprise that she hasn't co-sponsered the bill. Demings met with the airport workers just for optics. This is how most Democrat politicians operate. They act like they care. They promise change and help. But they never deliver because they will not vote against corporate interests.
Unpopular opinion, but…
Unionization should be strictly reserved for NON-AUTOMATABLE/NON-OUTSOURCEABLE JOBS AND PROFESSIONS ONLY!
Certain professions such as food service and retail are too prone to mass automation, streamlining, and online services.
It would be wasteful squandering precise resources unionizing workers in fields that'll soon offload legions of their employees for almost free machine labor.
Union: We Bargain.
Non Union: You beg.
Working class people are tired of begging. It’s time to unionize!
I can't even understand the disconnection between the living wage (the bare minimum required to SURVIVE!!) … and the minimum wage which is INSUFFICIENT!!!
As for tipping (hijacked tipping) what a ridiculous concept in a country that champions capitalism as the greatest economic system in the world (hijacked capitalism) … in a functional capitalist system employers pay a living wage, what you have is a hyper capitalistic system of bottom up businesses taking advantage of their employees, by not paying them enough- and their patronage by forcing them to pay more in what is essentially a supposedly voluntary service fee, tipping is supposed to be a reward for some kind of exemplary service as a sign of appreciation- not wage subsidy for employers, all this hyper capitalism has skewed the American system into vampirism which has benefited the wealthy at the cost of those who don't get enough to even survive …go figure 🤦â€â™‚ï¸
…I'll tell you one thing for free- a system that doesn't add up mathematically doesn't survive, it's not rocket science, if you have elite's leaching profit required for maintenance of said system- it inevitability becomes unsustainable.🤷â€â™‚ï¸
Stop complaining and keep applying. Get a better job don't work for companies that don't pay. Get a Google certificate and polish your resume. It's your own fault if you can't get a $20/job. There is 0 excuses, you can work from home and they will provide everything you need. Grow tf up
Same here in South Carolina..
Rent are too High and
Salary are too Below..
CEO'S, Board Members, Politicians, Land Lords, &
Slum Lords are the problems..
McDonald's are now offering to pay
$10 Dollar Hour..
These workers at Airport should been got paid more
$ 💵 Money..
This are the 21st Century..
I have said this for the last 50 years and the only way to break union busters is to break the company profits.
Thx Scottie and McKenna, thank you for having the courage to speak up and fighting for your rights.
It is too bad we do not live in capitalism. In feudalism, you must pay tribute to the rich people. You pay tribute to work for them. Until common services are taken from parasites, nothing will change.
These Airport workers did their jobs duing a Global Pandemic cleaning etc so you the Passengers could be safe, healthy, happy with your travel! 6 or even ten bucks as n hour is obscene wages
If a company makes hundreds of millions of dollars in profit why is it not okay to share some of that with the people that made it happen?. Example, your company earns 200 million dollars profit instead of 300 million profit because you share 100 million with the people that created all the prophet. One way it's good for the people that own the company the other way it's good for them and everyone else!.
So I guess everybody noticed the people that set the poverty level and the people that set the minimum wage level don't talk to each other. Year after year a large chunk of minimum wage falls into the poverty category. Crazy idea, tie the minimum wage to the poverty level because if you're working full-time you should at least earn more money than poverty money.
What kind of “benefit†is flying for free when one hasn’t the money to live at home?
My hat goes off to Bro. Scott Washington for the labour organizing work that he and Christian Smalls ( of Amazon, Staten Island) take on. As a middle -age Black man who had many job struggles with workplace racism and just finding jobs, it makes me proud to see these young men at the forefront of Labour Union organizing and resistance. Too often, people like to buy into the false notions that Black workers are "lazy", dont want to work, etc….No. Rather, we fight against the Exploitative Working Conditions and Power Relations of the Capitalist Labour System. We have been at the Forefront of these movements for centuries. Afro Americans created the term "Hard work"—-often with Low Wages or No Wages. Every newcomer worker owes Mr. Washington a Genuflect of Thanks for putting himself online and fighting against exploitative labour systems.
Tax the Rich at 100%…they can afford it.