• Airline passengers deserve quality security and services they can count on.

• Working communities in California deserve good jobs, with decent wages, access to affordable health care and full-time work.

• American, United and Southwest and other airlines have failed to establish professional standards, resulting in poor airline passenger satisfaction and jeopardizing public safety.

• Airlines' failure has created a crisis of inadequate training and equipment, low wages, lack of healthcare and part-time work.

• Today, across California, we’re urging the airlines to “get on board” and take responsibility for quality jobs, services and security.

• More than 5,000 airport workers are standing up for a good contract at LAX, SFO, SJC and OAK. Current contracts expire this summer.

• Airport workers earn a statewide average of $10.50 an hour and some earn as little as $8 an hour, with no affordable health care and only part-time work.

• Many airport service workers make impossible decisions between either paying the rent or taking their kids to the doctor and no one should have to face that.

• American, United and Southwest and other airlines have a historic opportunity right now during the upcoming contract negotiations to improve quality services and security by agreeing to better training and equipment, decent wages, family healthcare and full-time work for airport workers.

• American, United and Southwest and other airlines should take responsibility for quality services and security that their airlines passengers expect and deserve.

The bottom line: Airport service workers should have a shot at the American Dream, with wages to provide adequate housing for their familes, an opportunity to give their children a good education, and access to quality, affordable health care – nothing more than what all working families in California deserve.