Contract workers at JFK, LaGuardia airports to go on strike
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MORE than 1,000 security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at New York's LaGuardia and John F Kennedy International Airports voted unanimously to authorise a strike starting on Wednesday night.
The contract workers will walk off the job at JFK's Terminal 7, home to British Airways, United Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, at 10pm (10am on Thursday, Singapore time) The strike will continue through July 23 at JFK and LaGuardia, said Amity Paye, a spokeswoman for Service Employees International Union 32BJ (SEIU 32BJ), the largest property service workers union in the US.
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