Airport service workers in New Jersey lost their two-year push on Sept. 22 to persuade the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to boost their hourly wage to $15.
The New Jersey-based workers, employed by numerous contractors at Newark Liberty International Airport, are seeking wage parity with their counterparts in New York at John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is working to organize the workers.
“We all do the same work,” Nancy Velasquez, a service worker at the New Jersey airport, told the Port Authority’s 12-member Board of ...
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