Tell Alaska Airlines to stop impoverishing contract workers

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2018963554_guestmiagregersonxml.html

ALASKA Airlines has been praised for cutting costs and increasing profits over the past three years, all while maintaining quality customer service and flying its planes on time. What you may not know is that many of the employees responsible for the airline's record of service do not actually work for Alaska Airlines.

In fact, many of the workers who serve Alaska passengers are among the thousands of poverty-wage workers who are employed not by the airlines or by the airport itself, but by low-bid contractors.

The people who load your bags onto an Alaska flight work for a contractor. When your bags get to you within 20 minutes of your plane parking at the gate -- as Alaska guarantees -- that work is actually performed by contract workers who are paid wages starting at $9.25 an hour.

Sign the Puget Sound SAGE petition--

We all depend on the service of the many workers who take care of our bags, fuel our planes, clean aircraft cabins and many other critical jobs at SeaTac Airport. Yet nearly 4,000 of those jobs pay poverty wages. Airport workers deserve our respect and a living wage. Many of these passenger service workers – whose jobs are critical to passenger safety and airport security – hold down multiple jobs and receive no benefits. That is wrong.

We call on the Port of Seattle and the big corporations, like Alaska Airlines, that reap the benefits of their hard work to make all jobs at our airport good jobs.

We stand with all workers to demand respect and fair treatment.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5377/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10226

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