JFKIAT New Year's crew (L-R) Kathleen
Garcia, Hallmark, Edilson Norena,
JFKIAT Robert Bergman, JFKIAT, Robert
Pyrka, JFKIAT, Merly Suclupe, JFKIAT,
Baqar Rizvi, Hallmark
Translated: Wishing you great happiness
and prosperity. To all our friends
celebrating this Lunar New Year of the
Rat at JFKIAT departures retail lounge
area, the lion performance symbolizes
strength, stability and superiority. #jfkiat
#t4jfkairport #anewjfk #redevelopment
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New York Airport Workers Honor The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King’s Memory at Rally for ‘Healthy Terminals Act’
About 500 32BJ members gathered at JFK airport on January 22 in a rally inspired
by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to support New York airport workers who
gathered inside the airport’s Terminal 8 in a large circle to pray for health insurance
benefits and protections for workers and passengers. “We just came from inside Terminal
8 where we prayed for healthcare,” said SEIU 32BJ president Kyle Bragg, as he
addressed hundreds of union members, advocates, elected leaders and community
members. “Why? Because our journey to justice is not yet complete. We are close
but not there yet. We won’t get there until we win quality, affordable healthcare.”
“For everything we’ve won,” LaGuardia wheelchair Jordany Bueno Vasquez said, “we
need health insurance that we can afford to make it meaningful, to actually have a
livable wage.”