LOS ANGELES – Councilmembers Tim McOsker and Traci Park introduced a motion May 5 seeking a report on workplace conditions for the catering employees who provide in-flight airline meals at Los Angeles International Airport.
On April 10, the employees of Flying Food Group, who provide in-flight meals for several airlines, launched an unfair labor practice strike demanding that they have been underpaid and in danger of losing their health benefits.
“Our airline catering workers go above and beyond to make sure that visitors feel welcome and comfortable in Los Angeles, but haven’t been given the respect from their own employer to feel welcome or comfortable at their workplace,” said Councilmember McOsker. “Our city’s laws are very clear about what our workforce should be paid and if a major company like Flying Food Group is going to ignore this, the city should right the wrong and step in to protect workers.”
Per the city’s Living Wage Ordinance, workers are supposed to earn $18.04 an hour, the minimum wage (including health benefits) offered to Los Angeles World Airports contract workers. Furthermore, employees without health benefits should earn a base wage of $23.81 hourly.
The Los Angeles Daily News reported Flying Food is supposed to contribute $5.77 an hour toward workers’ health care coverage, but the company has opted to provide its own coverage with a contribution of $4.50 an hour, according to the worker’s union, UNITE HERE Local 11.
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