This action alert comes from our friends at SEIU 1:
Dear Friend,
PrimeFlight Aviation Services—a contractor that provides passenger services at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport—is charged with securing our airports and assisting disabled passengers. Despite how crucial this work is to our safety, PrimeFlight pays its employees so little that most qualify for public assistance like Medicaid and food stamps.
But that’s not even the worst of it. The Houston Chronicle reports that many passenger service workers at IAH are paid below the legal minimum wage. PrimeFlight claims that workers make up the difference in tips, but many do not and most travelers are not aware that the workers rely on tips. Rather than pay workers the difference, as required by law, PrimeFlight reportedly instructs workers to report tips that they do not receive.
Read the Houston Chronicle op-ed here.
Click on the link below to join airport workers and members of the Houston community in sending a message to PrimeFlight that underpaying workers and forcing them to misrepresent their earnings is unconscionable.
Thank you,
IAH’s passenger service workers and SEIU Local 1
