Airport Passenger Services
Current Contract:
SEIU Local 26 Airport Passenger Services Member Orientation
Additional Handouts:
These handouts contain different benefits we’ve won in our contract. If you have any questions on specific policies, please reach out to your Steward or Organizer. If you are a member and aren’t sure who they are, please call your Member Resource Center at 1-855-265-6225.
Airport Open Enrollment Forms:
SEIU Local 26 Airport Timeline
-Finest Lewis, Airport worker
20 years ago, I worked for Northwest airlines doing cabin cleaning, and I made over $20 per hour with family health insurance, a pension and 401k. Today the same company (now Delta) has you doing the same work for $10.65!
2012: Our union launched the campaign to organize passenger service workers at the airport, after many lost their union in the 1990’s with all of the airline mergers and bankruptcies.
2014: After civil disobedience and a large march that shut down the airport, the MAC passed ordinances for job protections, 8 sick days, and a 3$ increase in minimum wage to $10.85.
2016: Janitors at airport go on strike, showing passenger services workers how it’s done!
2017: After 5 years of organizing, workers win recognition and a first union master contract covering 1000 passenger services workers at MSP.
2018: after action in lobby of Delta, US aviation agreed to give 6 workers their jobs back, two months later signed the contract.
2019: We launched a coalition “airport workers council” with other unions to begin the fight for $15 at Airport.
2020: Airport workers pass an ordinance through MAC to increase wages from $11.90 to $15.00 by 2022. After COVID shuts down the airline industry and non-union sub contractors try to take our union jobs, passengers service workers protest until we win a new union master contract covering all 3 major airport companies, that increases job security and full time jobs, expands holidays to include Eid, Fasika, and MLK day, and expands vacation and sick days.
