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Airport workers urge City to enforce worker-retention, living-wage rules as layoffs rise at LAX
Summary
Union members and LAX concessions workers told the Los Angeles City Council they have been laid off in large numbers since Sept. 11 and urged the city to withhold assistance from companies that violate living-wage and worker-retention ordinances, and to adopt a responsible-contractor requirement at the airport.
Los Angeles City Council members heard more than a dozen workers this morning urging the city to enforce existing living-wage and worker-retention rules at Los Angeles International Airport and to adopt a responsible-contractor policy for businesses that receive city relief.
Union organizer Tom Walsh told the council that airline catering, airport food and retail concessions and hotel employees represented by his union have been “extremely hard hit since September 11,” and that some employers have refused to bargain or have violated collective-bargaining agreements. “There are companies who are in violation of city ordinances such as the living wage and the worker-retention ordinance,” Walsh said.
The testimony framed a larger appeal: several speakers asked the council to…
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