This is not good news for the employees who service major airlines who are seeing big profits so next time you need a skycap or if you need a wheelchair think of imagethese folks if you will.  Here’s a a video of one woman who is pregnant and it appears her coverage will be gone.  The clients the company services includes Virgin, Continental, Air France, Alaska Airlines and more. 

As the article states no layoffs but benefits will be gone and yes one more example of big corporate profits here coming first before benefits for employees.  It all comes down to budgets and algorithms for profit. 

GoodJobsLA

The big profitable airlines make a ton of money selling personal data they get for free so tax them and give some money back to companies who need to provide healthcare benefits, the alternative millionaire’s tax.  BD 

The Alternative Millionaire’s Tax–License and Tax Big Corporations Who Mine and Sell Taxpayer Data They Get for Free From the Internet-Phase One to Restore Middle Class With Transparency, Disclosure and Money

Good Jobs LA, a grassroots group that sympathizes with labor unions and the Occupy movement, says that the company's clients at LAX include Virgin Atlantic, United, Continental, Air France and Alaska Airlines.

Those carriers have seen more than $2.5 billion in profits collectively last year, according to the organization.

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Aviation Safeguards employs sky caps, wheel chair assistants and security personnel. Mendoza works as a dispatcher who sends wheel chair assistants to travelers who need them.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/01/lax_worker_health_insurance_pregnant_jennifer_mendoza.php

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