Airline prices—which are already 22% higher than they were two years ago—could get a whole lot more expensive and many airport workers could lose their jobs if a proposed amendment allowing the federal government to set the wages and benefits of airport workers makes its way into a Federal Aviation Administration bill.
That proposal from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is straight out of a command economy. It wouldn’t just put the government in charge of the wages and benefits of Transportation Security Administration employees—it would include the ticket counter workers, luggage loaders, janitors, restaurant and retail store workers, and virtually every worker with a connection to the airport, even though they are employed by private companies.
It even extends to workers at off-site catering services from which the food is delivered “to a location on or near airport…
