NYC Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez

Stand for Airport Workers!

Airport workers at Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia are subject to terribly poor wages and receive next to no vacation time or days off, including Martin Luther King day. At the time of his assassination, 46 years ago this April, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was working to support African American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, who today would be making $11.41 per hour; yet now, airport workers earn just $8.00 per hour and cannot afford to support their families. This MLK Day, on Monday, I’ll be joining many elected officials, religious leaders and labor leaders in an act of civil disobedience to raise the plight of airport workers to national attention so that they can receive the wages, treatment and dignity that they deserve and have earned.

For more information about the campaign and the struggles that so many face on a daily basis, check out this great oped by Camille Rivera from UnitedNY: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/camille-rivera/why-airport-workers-must-_b_4474590.html