William Johnson, 1st Class Tuskegee Airman at the Glen Cove Library
AIRPORT VOICE, JANUARY 2021 9
NYS Healthy Terminals Act
Healthcare for airport workers
Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D-Bronx),
celebrated the recent passage of the
New York State Healthy Terminals
Act, one of the bill’s sponsors which
was initially introduced in May of
2019. It is said to provide over 10,000
cabin and terminal cleaners, baggage
handlers, security offi cers, wheelchair
pushers and other subcontracted airport
workers with access to affordable
and quality health insurance.
“This is a victory for all New
Yorkers as we take an integral step
to protect some of our most vulnerable
workers in the wake of the global
pandemic,” Biaggi said. “Long before
Covid, mostly black, brown, and immigrant
airport workers have served
this state on the frontlines without
access to the healthcare they need to
keep themselves and their families
safe. With the signing of (this bill),
these essential workers will fi nally
have access to affordable healthcare
coverage.”
This bill was initially passed by
the NYS Legislature in July 2020 to
provide ‘covered airport workers’
supplemental hourly wage increases
of at least $4.54 to offset healthcare
costs. For now, employers must keep
a close eye on when the fi scal offi cer
will release the rules and regulations,
and what the prevailing wage rate
will be.
Starting September 1, 2021, covered
airport employers must pay a
covered airport worker the prevailing
wage, as set by the comptroller
of a city. Due to the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey’s status as
a bi-state entity.
SEIU 32BJ President Kyle Bragg
thanked Biaggi, Assembly member Alicia
Hyndman (D-Queens), and Cuomo
for passing and signing the measure.
“Essential, frontline airport workers
will breathe a deep sigh of relief
knowing that real healthcare is an
option soon,” Bragg said. “Adding a
healthcare benefi t supplement to airport
jobs creates thousands of good,
sustainable jobs that uplift everyone.
Airport workers have risked their
lives for the public during this unstoppable
pandemic, and nothing is more
important than protecting them.”
He added, “it is also a somber occasion
as we remember the lives of
airport workers already lost to COVID
19. This law is dedicated to the
memory of Leland Jordan, a baggage
handler at John F. Kennedy International
Airport, who was one of the
fi rst airport workers serving New
Yorkers to die from COVID-19.”
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