New Agreement for 500 Flying Foods/Servair Workers (12/20/11)

A new three-year agreement at Flying Foods/Servair in Long Island, New York, protects benefits and raises wages for 500 Local 1102 members at JFK Airport who cater food for airlines.  The new pact brings wage increases and job security for the life of the contract, and also secures benefits that are now scarce in the airline catering industry.

While management pushed hard to reduce or eliminate paid time off benefits such as holidays, vacations, sick days and personal days, Local 1102 members stood united, and protected these benefits for the life of the pact.

“We are happy to have maintained our paid time off benefits, knowing that others no longer enjoy what we have,” said Shirley Drennon a long time shop steward for Local 1102 at Flying Food/Servair.

“This contract shows the importance of having a union. Through the union, we’ve won benefits, and through the union, we are protecting what we’ve won,” Drennon added.