How Unions Promote Wage Inequality
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Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Relief was the main sentiment oftravelers who planned to pass through John F. KennedyInternational Airport in New York when security workers therecanceled the threat of a Christmastime strike.
Yet two troubling questions linger. The first involves theairport workers’ specific grievances. They complained of makingonly $8 an hour. Why so low, you wonder, especially comparedwith what union workers in security-related jobs get. Theguards, hired by the contractor Air Serv Corp., were so angrythat one of them even expressed a warning that those in safetyfields often don’t make explicit: that a labor action couldcompromise the public’s security. “They will be completelyunsafe,” said the guard, Prince Jackson.