Airport Workers’ Union Push Interrupted by Pandemic

SEIU is pushing unionization negotiations with contracted service providers at Logan Airport, including baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants, security officers and others.
By Chris Van Buskirk, State House News Service
Source WWLP.com
March 29, 2021

BOSTON (SHNS) – Bouchra Sbahi is worried about becoming homeless after being sent home from her contracted airline job at Logan Airport as the pandemic forced many people to stay home and curbed air travel.

“I am on unemployment but I only get $255 a week,” she said at a press conference hosted by 32BJ SEIU, one of the state’s largest service workers unions. “I am worried about becoming homeless. It’s all so hard on me.”

Read more: https://www.wwlp.com/news/state-politics/airport-workers-union-push-interrupted-by-pandemic/

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