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If you have actually been to the flight terminal, you Come either have actually throughout my colleagues and also me or have actually used our solutions. Mobility device aid at airport terminals is important and also makes traveling for the senior and also individuals with handicaps feasible.
In 1986, the Air Provider Accessibility Act was passed, which needed airline companies to give complimentary mobility device solution to any person that demands it. We are required all the time, and also without us, airport terminals and also airline companies can not operate.
Daily, I get up at 6:45 a.m. and also obtain my 5 children prepared for institution. I drop my children off at their institutions, return home, do the duties, prepare supper for the children to reheat later on, get and also hand over the children from institution, after that head to my task at 5 p.m. as a guest solution aide (PSA) at Midway International Airport Terminal.
As a PSA, I are accountable for making certain mobility device guests and also their travel luggage obtain transferred to their location securely. I get on my feet for almost 10 hrs a day, strolling 30,000 actions while pressing guests and also managing their travel luggage. While my colleagues and also I must be offered our legal breaks for lunch and also remainder, they usually do not obtain accepted due to the fact that it’s as well active.
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Getting on my feet all the time, without food and also literally drained pipes, I press my body to the restriction as I count down the mins up until my change finishes. That is, up until the feared notice comes: necessary overtime
Half an hour prior to we are readied to go residence, we obtain informed by monitoring that we require to remain longer– no exemptions. We obtain created up if we do not. The most awful situation: We obtain terminated. For functioning moms and dads like myself, this entirely modifies our day and also has a major influence on our family members.
My colleagues and also our family members are worthy of much better. We are worthy of time to consume and also to utilize the toilet. We are worthy of to allow our bodies remainder throughout our breaks. We are worthy of to have the alternative of whether we remain past our change.
We are the ones maintaining airport terminals up and also running. It is time flight terminal service providers such as Scrub and also Possibility worth and also regard the labor people, necessary employees.
Diana Ordaz Quezada, Resident 1 participant
No demand for ticket cash
In thinking about the proposition to alter the rate ticket limit from 6 miles per hour back to 10 miles per hour, we’re being informed the city will certainly shed $59 million. Chicago, nevertheless, does not require the cash. It’s offering away $30 million (5,000 victors obtain $500/month for 12 months), plus extra in gas and also transportation cards.
When it comes to safety and security, it’s an instance where you do not mind being existed to as high as the truth that the individual informing you the lie believes you could be stupid adequate to think it.
Larry E. Nazimek, Logan Square
