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Airline catering workers picket Dallas airport in contract fight
??By George Chalmers
Vol. 83/No. 33
September 9, 2019
Hundreds of airline catering workers, working for LSG Skychefs, rally
near American Airlines headquarters by Dallas-Fort Worth airport Aug.
13, demanding wage raises and new contract.
Militant/Hilda Cuzco
Hundreds of airline catering workers, working for LSG Skychefs, rally
near American Airlines headquarters by Dallas-Fort Worth airport Aug.
13, demanding wage raises and new contract.
EULESS, Texas ??? Several hundred airline catering workers employed at LSG
Skychefs from cities across the country joined a lively informational
picket line near the American Airlines headquarters outside the
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Aug. 13. The unionists, members
of UNITE HERE, are fighting for a new contract. They say they are
targeting American because it is LSG???s biggest customer.
Barry Sahi, a hotel housekeeper, came on a bus with 28 other unionists
from San Antonio. He described having to work double shifts. ???The
corporations make more money and we deserve to get paid more,??? he said.
Nearly half of LSG Skychefs workers receive $11.35 an hour or less and
can???t afford their employers??? health insurance plans, according to UNITE
HERE. The union represents some 18,000 catering workers at airports
nationwide.
The 11,000 union members working for LSG, including 926 at Dallas-Fort
Worth airport, voted in June to authorize a strike. Airline workers like
rail workers face anti-working-class legislation under the Railway Labor
Act, which is designed to restrict workers??? right to strike.
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