The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has ordered four airlines at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports to raise wages by $1 an hour for workers making $9 or less per hour.
The agency’s director, Patrick Foye, called for the raise in a letter to American, Delta, JetBLue and United. He said it should eventually go up to $10.10 per hour.
Foye also told the airlines to grant the airport workers’ request to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
He acted after President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he was signing an executive order increasing the minimum wage for future federal contractors to $10.10 an hour.
The Daily News first reported on the letter Wednesday.
(AP)
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It’s none of his business. Drop his wages to zero per hour and throw him out. Like Obama.
Raise their wages and also give them another paid holiday and than you can raise landing fees and airline tickets. I am not against raising their wages to $10 or $12 an hour but there is consequence; increase in airline fare; and I am not saying it is not justified. Airline fairs except go and come in the same week and booking at a short notice are ridiculously low. I check fairs and many flights the airport tax like between London and NYC is more money than the air line gets
Chutzpah! Since when is it the PA business? Why stop at ten when they could ask for ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AN HOUR?!