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Supervisors hear airport workers as Airlines for America appeals Healthy Airport Ordinance
Summary
At a May 17 Budget & Finance hearing, city leaders and hundreds of airport workers warned that an ongoing appeal by Airlines for America could strip health coverage from thousands of SFO contractors; the committee continued the item to the call of the chair to allow budget‑period follow‑up.
Chair Connie Chan convened the Budget & Finance Committee on May 17 for a hearing on the San Francisco Healthy Airport Ordinance and its implementation, drawing large public turnout from airport workers and union representatives. President Aaron Peskin, a cosponsor of the hearing, told the committee that Airlines for America sued the city in 2021 and the case is now pending before the Ninth Circuit after a district court upheld the ordinance.
Peskin said the committee needed to examine the ordinance’s fiscal effects on the Department of Public Health and on the upcoming city budget. “When our city workers…do not have adequate health care, that ultimately impacts our budget in other ways,” Peskin said. Deputy City Attorney Anne Pearson told the panel she could not speculate…
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