So How Do You End up Living in an Airport for Years?
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In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in the terminals and using the many bathroom facilities. It wasn’t until an airport employee asked to see his ID that the jig was up.
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport. Since October, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in the terminals…
By: Johanna Alonso Daily Record business reporter March 4, 2021
File photo of the BWI Airmall in the southwest pier. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz)
In the latest effort to assure that laid-off hospitality workers are able to return to their jobs post-pandemic, labor activists are supporting a bill that would mandate private-sector employees at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport be allowed to return to their jobs when hiring resumes.
This follows a successful push for Baltimore city legislation that will require event centers and hotels to rehire workers laid off due to COVID-19 when they restore payrolls.
Since the pandemic’s onset, a massive amount of the hospitality industry has been laid off. Roxie Herbekian, president of United Here Local 7, the Maryland chapter of a North American union for hospitality workers, estimates that around 1,200 BWI employees are currently laid off.
State Roundup: Hogan announces vaccine equity plan with community partnerships
The Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability and other groups demonstrated Thursday outside the State House, supporting stronger police reforms than passed by the State Senate Wednesday. From its Facebook video.
HOGAN ANNOUNCES EQUITY PLAN, BALTIMORE CITY MAYOR DEFENDS CITY EFFORTS: Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that the state has launched a concerted first in the nation “equity operations plan” aimed at increasing access to coronavirus vaccines in Maryland’s most vulnerable communities, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter.
The plan, which largely relies on churches and community groups requesting clinics in their neighborhoods, is intended to be a way to improve the pace of getting coronavirus vaccine shots into the arms of Marylanders who are not white, Pamela Wood and Hallie Miller report for the Sun.
While most involuntary airport residents long to leave their temporary home, there are some who have voluntarily attempted to make it their long-term abode.