By Ginger Adams Otis
New York’s “summer of hell” now includes airports.
Some 700 airport workers who provide curbside and terminal services for
major airlines at all three New York travel hubs went on strike at 9
p.m. Tuesday — potentially snarling flights for United Airlines,
American Airlines and JetBlue.
Hundreds of wheelchair attendants, skycaps, baggage handlers, customer
service agents, cabin cleaners, terminal cleaners and shuttle drivers
walked off their jobs at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Airports in a labor
dispute with their employer, PrimeFlight Inc, which subcontracts their
services to other airlines.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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