Budget Rental Car Workers at Logan Airport Join CWA

October 29, 2009

A tremendous degree of unity and commitment by workers at Budget Car Rental at Logan Airport in Boston, Mass., overcame management's anti-union campaign last week. The 60 workers won their union voice by a 33-17 vote; they will be represented by IUE-CWA Local 81201.

The workers' organizing committee united the workers around workplace issues and successfully countered management's efforts to divide them. IUE-CWA organizers said Budget management was forced to cut short many of its captive audience meetings because the organizing committee kept taking them over.

The workers were assisted by IUE-CWA Local 81201 organizer Sheila McGillicuddy, President Jeff Crosby, local organizing committee member Mark Whelton, and Jorge Rivera, the local's chief steward at Avis.