Being rated among the top five largest and the busiest airport here in the United States, it is no easy task to maintain airport duties. The various jobs at O’Hare airport ranges to Transpires Security Administration (TSA), cleaning the airline airplanes, and many more subcontractor jobs in which majority of workforce are not being recognize, having low paid rates, and limited or no benefits for their employees.
Chicago expenses are increasing, making it difficult to live in the city. Chicagoans are struggling to make ends meet and especially for those that work with temporary agencies. The temporary agencies make commission off their employees, charge them transportation fees, tax fees, and by the end of the day the employees make $40 dollars on average day. How can employees be able to afford Obamacare, their bills, and support their family when in fact, you get low paid, have no benefits, or even can’t take a personal time off to rest the mind and the soul of the body?
The subcontractor’s workers that are being unpaid are challenging and want to create a union. The head leaders of the subcontractor’s are refusing to make such arrangements, threatening to fire anyone that goes on strike – and has already fire employees’ that are trying to protest for decent living earnings.
Keeping the person name confidential, she claims to earn $12 an hour and is responsible to watch certain doors and roam around for security purposes. Her subcontractor company as a whole does not want to participate in the strike; she states that her fellow employees are afraid that they will get laid off.
It is not just O’Hare airport that the subcontractor’s employees are contesting the underpaid wages, but there are other national airports such as Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Boston, Newark Liberty, New York’s Kennedy, and LaGuardia airports are also having issues with their contractor employees.
The people do have the right to contest the unfair wages and benefits. In some cases, it is a lot worse for the other locations compare to O’Hare due to extreme low pay wages.
This is becoming a domino effect across the nation. As this is escalating to becoming a bigger issue for the subcontractor’s, this can become a topic in which it can be a crisis if the people go on a massive protest and maybe even to an extent that the government are force to get involved if this continues within the airports.
If this situation intensifies, the airports might actually have to undergo a shutdown of the employee’s mass together and pursue a strike as a whole. If that situation does not occur, but the employees start quitting on a massive scale; how would the airport solve this problem?
These subcontractors have to find a solution to take care of their employees. No need to keep the mentality of having the rich to become richer and the poor becomes poorer. The subcontractor employees have their constitutional rights and will act on them if the problems are not resolved.