500 Workers Will March & Rally for Good Jobs at LAX Today
Celebrating the progress in L.A.'s struggle to transform poverty-level jobs into good jobs, 500 service workers will descend upon LAX today at noon. Their message? "Don't reverse our progress." The march and rally event also supports East Coast janitors whose contracts are expiring soon and is part of a national day of actions. Thousands of low-wage janitors and office cleaners from a dozen cities will take to the streets in support of jobs that have paved the middle class path for hundreds of thousands of workers.
“Progress is being able to take my children to annual checkups with their own doctor,” says Takieya Jackson, a security officer with the company Aviation Safeguards at LAX, per today's new release. Jackson and other airport workers fought for and won a historic update to the L.A. Living Wage law in 2009, providing airport service workers with family health insurance. “We refuse to let them reverse the progress that we have made,” says Jackson.
Supporters, waving picket signs and banners, will begin their march at Terminal 7 at noon then strut to Terminal 1. The rally is slated for 1pm between Terminals 1 and 2. The group will be heard, as participants plan to bang drums and chant plus speak about their hopes and sacrifices. In addition to service workers, community supporters and elected leaders will be in attendance.
