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Airport workers press council for living wage and contract protections; union calls for worker-retention policy
Summary
Multiple Sky Harbor airport employees and union representatives urged the council to back a $25-an-hour minimum at the airport and adopt a worker-retention policy to protect employees when contractors change or contracts are enforced.
Several airport workers and union representatives used the citizen-comment period on Aug. 27 to urge Phoenix leaders to adopt stronger wage standards and contract protections for airport service staff.
Nicole Ray, a Sky Harbor passenger-service agent, said she and colleagues earn poverty wages and asked the council to support a $25 hourly wage floor for airport service workers. Ray described reliance on public benefits and said a $25 wage…
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