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Workers at four airports strike to protest abuses, this week in the war on workers

Contract workers at four East Coast airports staged a one-day strike on Thursday, citing abuses by Eulen America, the company that employs them. The workers, including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, ramp workers, and wheelchair attendants, service American Airlines and Delta. A recent investigation by CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede found that Eulen hires recent immigrants, pays them low …

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Chicago Airport Workers Seek Fairness, Unionization

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CHICAGO—Even more than frustrated airline passengers who find the skies increasingly unfriendly, airline and airport workers—who only walk the airport terminals’ long corridors—are discovering that the air travel business is growing less and less congenial for them. In reaction, workers at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports—the nation’s second and twenty-seventh busiest—are trying to defend and improve the quality of their worklives …

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Airport Workers Say Pay Is Illegally Low

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Every day she goes to work at O’Hare International Airport, Elda Burke faces the same dilemma. Burke, 30, works as a passenger attendant at the airport, escorting the elderly and disabled to and from their gates by wheelchair. Even though the airlines describe this as a free service, Burke’s employer has her working partly for …

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Airport employees

Workers at four airports strike to protest abuses, this week in the war on workers

Chicago Airport Workers Seek Fairness, Unionization

Airport Workers Say Pay Is Illegally Low

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