Union challenges 3 suspensions, 1 firing of airport workers
Source: North Jersey
BY RICHARD NEWMAN
A union is challenging the legitimacy of one-day suspensions by a private contractor of three airplane cabin cleaners and the firing of another after the workers participated in a 24-hour work stoppage earlier last month at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Kevin Brown, New Jersey state director of the 32BJ chapter of the Service Employees International Union, alleges that cabin cleaner Saterrah Sumter was unfairly fired last Tuesday by Nashville-based subcontractor PrimeFlight Aviation Services because of her union-organizing activities at Newark.
"They told her she was one of the ringleaders," Brown said Monday. The union is preparing a complaint that will be filed with the National Labor Relations Board, Brown said.
Sumter could not be reached, and PrimeFlight, which cleans airplane cabins for United Airlines at Terminal C, did not respond to The Record's requests for comment.
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