Some 20,000 workers at American Airlines are fighting for their right to observe Martin Luther King Day — a benefit already given to most of the airline’s other employees.
At airports across the country, thousands of American Airlines mechanics, baggage handlers and ground workers can’t get Jan. 15 as a recognized holiday, according to Transport Workers Union Local 501, which is based in New York.
Yet the birthday of the slain civil rights leader is observed by the airline’s 90,000 other workers, said Local 501 executive vice president Angelo Cucuzza.
