Service workers at San Francisco’s airport called for a $30 an hour minimum wage and other improved benefits during a Board of Supervisors hearing on Thursday.
Workers at San Francisco International Airport who clean airplane cabins, handle baggage, work security, push wheelchairs and more currently make about $22 per hour. This translates to a little over $45,000, before taxes, for a 40-hour work week — well below the poverty line in San Francisco.
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Nestor Dolde, 73, said he works two separate jobs at the airport — totalling 16 hours a day — to earn enough for his family of four to survive.
“I sacrifice the health and safety of myself just to give a decent living [to] my family because the transportation now is so expensive … I don’t sleep too much,” Dolde said at the hearing.
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