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Airport Workers Deserve Better

From the restaurant workers, Ramp Agents, Flight Attendants, etc. It's appalling that jobs pay $15 or less an hour for people to arrive 30+ minutes early to take a bus to the airport, go through security, and all while be not paid until they start “working” on the clock. The one I work at takes a bare min of 30 minutes to arrive early and as late as 50 minutes to leave at night. Ramp agents push your plane to taxi, guide your plane in, balance the weight of the plane, service everything, all while being paid less than $15 an hour. Airports where a meal at the airport costs at the bare minimum $15. They handle equipment worth 1000s of times more than their salaries and are subject to ridiculous fines. E.g., If they don't correctly check a seal on a truck, they are subject to a personal fine…


From the restaurant workers, Ramp Agents, Flight Attendants, etc.

It's appalling that jobs pay $15 or less an hour for people to arrive 30+ minutes early to take a bus to the airport, go through security, and all while be not paid until they start “working” on the clock. The one I work at takes a bare min of 30 minutes to arrive early and as late as 50 minutes to leave at night.

Ramp agents push your plane to taxi, guide your plane in, balance the weight of the plane, service everything, all while being paid less than $15 an hour. Airports where a meal at the airport costs at the bare minimum $15. They handle equipment worth 1000s of times more than their salaries and are subject to ridiculous fines. E.g., If they don't correctly check a seal on a truck, they are subject to a personal fine of 15k by TSA (literally half their yearly salary), and the airline is fined 30k.

Flight Attendants get paid scraps around $20 an hour and only have the airplane door is closed for most airlines. I personally know 1 that jumped off the parking garage last week. The list goes on. I know the work culture isn't just bad at airports, but it does make sense why barely anything is open at airports these days. We hate it here.

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