http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/los-angeles-airport-employees-plan-march-to-protest-bad-service/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/los-angeles-airport-employees-plan-march-to-protest-bad-service/comment-page-1/#comment-3787 BriCo Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:48:27 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=4960#comment-3787 Whether they work for the City, Feds, or airlines, I suspect those workers/unions aren't feeling bad because they think I deserve better treatment while traveling. What they most likely are seeking is more job security, more overtime wages, higher salaries and benefits, etc. Read the reasons for the protest: " . . . carriers making staff cutbacks and have expressed that performance and attitudes of airline staff are suffering . . ". Employee attitudes are THEIR doing, not their employers. Yes, employers influence worker attitudes, but it's the INDIVIDUAL who presents the attitude, not the employer. Do I sympathize with them (and other workers everywhere? Of COURSE I do, but it's so much a ME world these days that I can't accept anything at face value. Whether they work for the City, Feds, or airlines, I suspect those workers/unions aren’t feeling bad because they think I deserve better treatment while traveling. What they most likely are seeking is more job security, more overtime wages, higher salaries and benefits, etc. Read the reasons for the protest: ” . . . carriers making staff cutbacks and have expressed that performance and attitudes of airline staff are suffering . . “. Employee attitudes are THEIR doing, not their employers. Yes, employers influence worker attitudes, but it’s the INDIVIDUAL who presents the attitude, not the employer. Do I sympathize with them (and other workers everywhere? Of COURSE I do, but it’s so much a ME world these days that I can’t accept anything at face value.

]]> http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/los-angeles-airport-employees-plan-march-to-protest-bad-service/comment-page-1/#comment-3779 hank jeffries Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:36:54 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=4960#comment-3779 The headline for this article is very misleading. "Los Angeles airport employees" to me means those people who are the approximately 3,500 employees of the Airport, which is a Department of the City of Los Angeles, in other words, all civil servants (who are working under Union contracts) or appointees. This would be important information to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villagairosa, to find out that the union members are planning such an event - believe me, all of the LA area news media would have that as a lead story! Only when one gets further into the article is one informed that the individuals being referred to are NOT airport employees, but are in fact either employees of contractors, concessionaires, activists, etc. These individuals are the same rabble-rousers who got the City Council to punish the hotels near LAX for allegedly not paying a "living wage" to their employees. The California Supreme Court declared that Council action illegal. Of course the fact that over half of those hotel employees are illegals (excuse me, undocumented workers) is something we don't talk about in polite company...... The headline for this article is very misleading. “Los Angeles airport employees” to me means those people who are the approximately 3,500 employees of the Airport, which is a Department of the City of Los Angeles, in other words, all civil servants (who are working under Union contracts) or appointees. This would be important information to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villagairosa, to find out that the union members are planning such an event – believe me, all of the LA area news media would have that as a lead story!
Only when one gets further into the article is one informed that the individuals being referred to are NOT airport employees, but are in fact either employees of contractors, concessionaires, activists, etc. These individuals are the same rabble-rousers who got the City Council to punish the hotels near LAX for allegedly not paying a “living wage” to their employees. The California Supreme Court declared that Council action illegal. Of course the fact that over half of those hotel employees are illegals (excuse me, undocumented workers) is something we don’t talk about in polite company……

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