Dear Friend --

As CLUE, we are steadfast in our belief that in moments of crisis, it is imperative that we all do our part to protect and advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But companies like HMS Host are putting profits over people.

We need your voice to stand up for the workers. Click here to send a letter to City Council now.

As you know, LAX workers and the companies they work for have been hard-hit by the economic fallout of COVID-19. In order to help struggling concessions companies and give airport workers a measure of relief through extended healthcare, the airport’s governing board recently approved a second round of rent relief and valuable lease extensions for concessionaires.

But the biggest concessionaire at LAX, HMS Host, is part of a massive corporation, not a struggling small business. Its parent company Autogrill, is owned by a family of Italian multi-billionaires whose holding corporation had assets valued at $13.8 billion last year. HMS Host workers at LAX are over 90% people of color, over 20% Black, and live in the very communities this pandemic has devastated. Billionaires like HMS Host don’t need relief.

On October 13, 2020, HMS Host workers filed a class action lawsuit alleging the company failed to pay workers the minimum living wages for airport workers required by Los Angeles’s Living Wage Ordinance. The suit also alleges that HMS Host failed to pay workers their vacation time when it carried out a mass layoff in March and April 2020. California law requires employers to pay employees all earned wages and accrued vacation time immediately upon layoff.

Throughout the pandemic, you’ve seen huge, wealthy companies try to cash in on programs meant to help small businesses and working families survive.

You can help stop it from happening again.

Go to this link and click “Start Writing” now to tell Los Angeles City Council to refuse HMS Host financial support they don’t need or deserve.

In faith and solidarity, 

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice

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