Airport Contract Workers Call Off Boston Logan Strike

Feb. 12, 2018
Contract workers at Logan Airport abruptly called off their strike Thursday after two days, but picked up support from local officials who vowed to assist their efforts to unionize.

Contract workers at Logan Airport abruptly called off their strike Thursday after two days, but picked up support from local officials who vowed to assist their efforts to unionize.

The workers, who provide services for JetBlue Airways and other carriers, met with state legislators, Boston city councilors, and Governor Charlie Baker’s staff on Thursday, the union said, and the officials pledged to put pressure on the two companies that employ them, ReadyJet and Flight Services & Systems, as well as JetBlue and the Massachusetts Port Authority, to allow the workers to organize a union.

The contract workers did not come to any sort of agreement with their employers, however.

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