Barack Obama Issues Statement Supporting Improved Standards for Airport Workers, Passengers
September 5, 2008 · Print This Article
CHICAGO, IL – Senator Barack Obama issued the following statement today in support of passenger service workers at airports throughout California:
“I stand with the airline service workers who temporarily went on strike at Los Angeles International Airport last week. The demands they’re fighting for aren’t unreasonable – access to health care, adequate training, proper equipment, wages that can support a family – they’re what America’s workers deserve. Their efforts send a strong signal that it’s not good for workers, passengers, or the industry when business fails to live up to its end of the bargain.
“By supporting the security personnel who don’t have the staffing or training to ensure passenger safety or deal with high turnover rates, the crewmembers in dangerous conditions who can’t afford health care, and the service workers who after more than a decade on the job still don’t earn a living wage that makes ends meet, we all benefit.
“For the airline industry, meeting these demands is inextricably tied to passenger safety, quality service, and the health of our economy. Our airlines have a responsibility to their workers and passengers to come back to the bargaining table so that union members can go back to work.”
To read Senator Obama’s plan to continue fighting for America’s workers, click HERE.
Okay folks, we now need to take action against the crap service, over charging, lazy, rude employees, crowded planes and flight changes caused by the carriers…ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
When an airline changes your scheduled departure, cancels your flight or messes up your schedule with mechanical problems, late departures, flight crews not showing up…THEY NEED TO PAY!
Every change we make on our tickets cost anywhere from 100 to 150 dollars and the airlines need to start compensating each passenger that THEY effect with their changes!
Over the last couple of months I have had 4 airline initiated changes and cancellations and none due to weather or air traffic control…I asked each time for a change fee and only once did I get the equivalent (in travel coupon) from Delta…the rest of the airlines (USAIRWAYS BEING THE RUDEST ON THE PLANET) basically told me to go fly a kite… this is my kite…START ASKING FOR RESTITUTION!