(22 Nov 2024)
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Charlotte, North Carolina — 22 November 2024
1. Wide of service workers voting on whether to strike
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Griffin, airport service worker:
“We’re voting on our strike because we are we’re not treated fairly. We’re not paid fairly. We’re not respected in our jobs of what we do and we just want higher, you know, more wages and a little a little respect.”
3. Wide of passengers walking inside of the airport
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Griffin, airport service worker:
“I voted for the strike because that’s the only way we’re going to get anything done to let them know we’re for real. We mean business. We’re not just playing with you saying we’re going to strike and just you know, we are not going to do anything. We want them to know that we’re going to do it and we’re going to do it as long as it takes.”
5. Close of strike ballot
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lashonda Barber, airport service worker:
“This decision is difficult in ways because to strike is because I’m going to lose the day of work. We are already ain’t getting paid anything and to lose a day of work it’s going to hurt us. Is going to hurt us in the long run but at the same time, if everything go through the company, say yes, okay, ya’ll won. You, ya’ll can get more money or we can come to the table and recognize you as an union. At the end of the day is going to be great just to get that result which we trying to get today.”
7. Wide of airport pedestrian bridge
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nemiah Sydney, airport traveler:
“They got to support their family and then you know, the airport got to stay clean. It’s a dirty place. You know, when people be traveling the airport, how many different germs come internationally, if you try, where they got monkeypox, if they come home from Africa, and different kind of spots, you need them to keep the airport clean, I ain’t trying catch no disease. I don’t want nobody else catching a disease around here, so I’m all for it.”
9. Wide of airport security lines
10. Close of airport service worker casting a strike ballot
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Griffin, airport service worker:
“We want to let them know that without us, they cannot make it. We have to with my cleaners, they clean the planes. The planes cannot move unless they got cleaners on the plane. So if it comes to a standstill, it’s not our fault, it’s your fault for not being fair to your workers.”
12. Wide of cleaning supplies at airport
STORYLINE:
Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport filled out paper ballots on a busy Friday before Thanksgiving to decide whether to go on a 24-hour strike during the holidays.
The vote is being taken by employees of ABM and Prospect, which provide services like cleaning interiors of the planes, removing trash and escorting passengers in wheelchairs.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport said in a news release they were expecting approximately 1.02 million passengers departing between the Thursday and Monday prior to the holiday. The exact date of the proposed strike has not been announced but it was expected to be around Thanksgiving,
Dorothy Griffin has been working for ABM for seven years and said she provides equipment for people to clean the planes.
“We’re voting on our strike because we’re not treated fairly, we’re not paid fairly. We’re not respected in our jobs. We just want higher and more wages and a little respect.”
A representative for Prospect did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment on Friday.
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