Workers at Two New York Airports Vote to Strike Today
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Contractors let the airports save a few bucks, but it means they are less safe than they would be if workers had decent pay and benefits.
More than 1,000 security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International Airports voted unanimously to authorize a strike starting Wednesday night.
The contract workers will walk off the job JFK’s Terminal 7, home to British Airways, United Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways at 10 p.m., potentially causing travel headaches for thousands. The strike will continue through July 23 at JFK and LaGuardia, said Amity Paye, a spokeswoman for Service Employees International Union’s Local 32BJ.
“While the airlines have been making record profits and the Port Autho
