NY, NJ PORT AUTHORITY TO PASS HIGHEST MINIMUM WAGE IN COUNTRY

32BJ airport members won a $19 minimum wage for all airport workers in the region.

WHAT: Press conference following the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Board meeting where a vote is planned to raise the minimum wage for 40,000 workers at LaGuardia, the John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty international airports to $19 per hour by 2023.

WHO: Airport workers and 32BJ union members will be joined by elected officials, religious leaders and community activists.

WHEN: 1 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, 2018

WHERE: 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302

NEW YORK—Dozens of New York and New Jersey airport workers plan to attend Thursday’s Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Board Meeting to witness the Board of Commissioners pass a $19 an hour minimum wage at LaGuardia, the John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty international airports. After the vote, workers plan to rally outside the meeting to celebrate the many ways the raise will change their lives.

If passed, it will create the nation’s highest publicly mandated minimum wage and will deeply impact local communities. The wage increase would support over 2,700 new jobs in the region, increasing sales to local businesses by $465.1 million and creating $33.7 million a year in tax revenue.

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With 163,000 members in 11 states, including 12,000 in New Jersey and 85,000 in New York, 32BJ SEIU is the largest property service workers union in the country