Airport Workers Celebrate Minimum Wage Increase

Oct. 8, 2018
On Sept. 27, the workers celebrated as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a proposal to raise wages to $19 per hour by 2023.

For nearly seven years, airport workers across the borough have marched, held sit-ins and rallies and committed civil disobedience — like shutting down the 94th Street Bridge approach into LaGuardia Airport — in their fight for dignity and economic justice.

On Sept. 27, the workers celebrated as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a proposal to raise wages to $19 per hour by 2023.

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