Coronavirus has some LAX airport workers worried because they didn't get proper training and protection to clean planes from infected areas.
Terrified about the coronavirus outbreak, airline worker Barbara Gomez refused her supervisor’s order to clean the interior of an American Airlines plane when it arrived from China at Los Angeles International Airport.
With the outbreak claiming more than 3,000 lives around the globe, the risk of being infected is on everybody’s mind, especially airline and airport workers like Gomez and her colleagues, who say they have been forced to choose between their jobs and possibly being exposed to the virus.Over the weekend, an American Airlines flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Milan, Italy, wasto fly to the region that had recently reported an outbreak of the virus.
A 2017 Los Angeles ordinance requires all airport employees, including those who work for a contractor at LAX, to undergo 16 hour of emergency response training to teach workers the definition and impact of “hazardous materials” and “infectious diseases” among other subjects. Gomez and several of her co-workers said they don’t recall undergoing such training.“We were just being thrown out there without the tools we needed,” said Miguel Covarrubias, who has worked for JetStream for 10 months.
. “When a concern is raised by a team member, we work to address it immediately, as we did with this employee.”In a statement, American Airlines said: “American Airlines’ vendor management team works in close partnership with all of our vendors, including JetStream, to ensure the health and safety of everyone in the airport environment.”
If workers refused to clean a plane, Reese said, supervisors reprimanded them for being insubordinate.
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