Airport workers to pack MAC meeting, demand higher wage today 5-18-15

MSP airport workers, shown at a rally earlier this year, are keeping up the pressure for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.


http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/airport-workers-pack-mac-meeting-demand-higher-wage

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
May 13, 2015

BLOOMINGTON
Airport workers say they will pack Monday’s meeting of the Metropolitan Airports Commission to protest a proposal that falls short of the $15 minimum wage they advocate.

The meeting will be held Monday, May 18, at 1 p.m., at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. 15Now supporters will gather at noon at the tram-level information desk in the main terminal before going to the meeting.

Responding to pressure, the MAC will consider a resolution to require airport contractors to pay $10 an hour effective Aug. 1, which is $1 more than the state-mandated minimum wage of $9 an hour effective that same date.

“While any raise is welcome, [the MAC’s] proposal leaves hundreds of workers out entirely, and is far from enough to address widespread poverty conditions facing airport workers and their families,” members of 15Now said in an e-mail. “This proposal is especially outrageous after Delta [Air Lines] awarded their CEO a $5 million raise last year!”

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