Port Authority passes resolution to improve airport worker wages

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Stephon Johnson

Last week, Port Authority board members voted unanimously to raise the wages of all contract employees at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports, thereby signaling a long-fought victory for employees.

The policy gives the Port Authority the power to amend new and existing agreements in order to force airlines to raise workers’ pay by $1 per hour as soon as possible and phase in a $10.10 hourly wage by the end of 2015. The new policy also calls on employers to develop plans for enhanced benefits like medical coverage and to award workers paid holidays.

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