Group of aircraft fabrics continues solidarity with the contract assessment
Just a week after a unanimous strike in Swissport, the group of 150 aircraft fabrics at Seatac Airport continued yesterday when they came together to ratify a new contract. The agreement solves many of the problems identified before the negotiation and at the same time paves a concrete way towards a stronger future in this industry. The ratified contract imposes a strike that almost concluded the flight through the busy Seatac hub.
The contract will significantly improve the quality of life of employees in this exhausting job. It places a new and meaningful focus on safety regulations, deals with the problem of parking workers, deals with the problems of planning the planning of preferred and finally solves problems with the basic needs of the workers by ensuring that they are supplied with drinking water, locking rooms, fracture rooms and clothing machines for fuel accountforms. In their entirety, the improvements in contract languages make it clear that Swissport is willing to improve working conditions and the relationship between workforce and management.
The contract also illuminates one of the biggest problems that affect workers at Seatac Airport: not union competition. The agreement deals directly with a unique and creative solution with which wages can be renegotiated in the event competitor who organize themselves with the team stars. This unorthodox approach motivates the employees to take part in a race than at the top, and could serve as a model for other contracts in similarly challenging industries.
“This contract negotiation came as close as possible without the workers actually giving the job off, but in the end Solidarity won the day,” said Teamsters Local 174 Secretary Schatzmeister Rick Hicks. “We appreciate the complete change in behavior on the Swissport page of the table, after we received the unanimous strike voices, and the resulting contract is one that focuses on working conditions and respect and center of this group. We look forward to seeing what everyone is able to see in the three years of the contract, like everyone in this contractual penalty, in this, in this Total, they have been built up throughout the solid, and that throughout the solid, in which they maintain throughout the solid, they maintain in this entire process in this entire process. “
The Teamsters Local 174, founded in 1909, represents 8,400 workers and women in the Seattle area. “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsterslocal174.