Union: Logan workers seeking $15 per hour will risk arrest

Source: WCVB

By Michael Norton

BOSTON —While pressing for further action on Beacon Hill, airport workers in Boston plan to risk arrest Monday as part of their push for a $15 hourly wage and union rights.

Workers gathered at East Boston Memorial Park and marched to Terminal E at Logan Airport, the State House News Service reported.

"If Dr. King were alive today he would stand with airport workers like me who are fighting for dignity and a living wage so we can support our families," Karl Celis, a Logan baggage handler, said in a statement released Monday by the union. "Today, at Logan and airports across the country, we carry Dr. King's torch of justice forward."

The union says baggage handlers, terminal and cabin cleaners, skycaps, wheelchair agents, customer service agents, and security officers and ramp workers are helping generate profits for the bustling aviation industry while struggling to make fiscal ends meet themselves and relying on public assistance programs to support their families.

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