Teamsters organize rental-car workers at MSP airport

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5171

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate editor
15 March 2012

BLOOMINGTON - By a 3-to-1 margin, employees of GCA Services Group at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport voted Wednesday in favor of forming a union. The 162 workers will be represented by Teamsters Local 120.

GCA Services Group is a contractor that provides rental-car companies with services like shuttling, cleaning and detailing their rental vehicles.

Yohannes Asfaw, a GCA employee who worked on the organizing campaign, said the company was not living up to the promises it made to workers. That prompted several workers to look into forming a union.

“When they hire us, they give us an employee handbook,” Asfaw said. “This includes a lot of benefits – breaks, vacation, personal days, holiday pay and raises. But they didn’t give those benefits to us.”



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