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旧金山将扩大机场工作人员的医疗保险范围！
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that would require some employers at San Francisco International Airport to offer affordable health care plans for thousands of airport workers and their families.
旧金山监管人员周二一致通过一项法令，要求旧金山国际机场的一些雇主为数千名机场工作人员及其家人提供负担得起的医疗保健计划。
Authored by supervisors Shamann Walton and Rafael Mandelman, the Healthy Airport Ordinance requires that employers such as airlines and third-party providers offer employees family plans or make contributions on behalf of employees to the city’s health care fund.
由监管机构沙曼·沃尔顿(Shamann Walton)和拉斐尔·曼德尔曼(Rafael Mandelman)执书的《健康机场条例》(Healthy Airport Ordinance)要求航空公司和第三方供应商等雇主向员工提供家庭计划，或代表员工向城市医疗保健基金缴款。
According to union leaders, the expanded health care access is much needed as airport workers — including baggage handlers, wheelchair agents, security screeners and lobby agents — are in constant, close contact with passengers and face an elevated risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19.
工会领导人说，由于机场工作人员——包括行李搬运工、轮椅工作人员、安检人员和大堂工作人员——与乘客保持着持续、密切的接触，感染和传播COVID-19的风险增加，扩大医疗服务的覆盖面是非常必要的。
Additionally, workers such as airline food catering workers and airplane cabin cleaners also face risk, as they work in small spaces, where ventilation isn’t always possible.
此外，航空公司餐饮服务人员和飞机客舱清洁工等工作人员也面临风险，因为他们工作的空间狭小，通风不总是可行的。
So far, there have been 156 cases of COVID-19 among SFO workers.
目前，SFO工作人员共发现156例新冠肺炎病例。
“For far too many airport workers — the majority of whom are low wage, and many of whom live below the Bay Area poverty line — sky-rocketing co-pays and deductibles and expensive family plans mean workers and their families regularly forego medical visits because they can’t afford to take on thousands of dollars in debt. This health care crisis not only threatens the safety of SFO, but also threatens to further widen the gap between the richest and the poorest in our economy. The Healthy Airport Ordinance will help end this race to the bottom for frontline Airport workers,” Mandelman said in a statement.
”太多的机场工作人员——其中大多数是低工资,和他们中的很多人生活在贫困线湾区等值的,相关费用和免赔额和昂贵的家庭计划意味着工人和他们的家庭经常放弃医疗访问,因为他们承担不起数千美元的债务。这场医疗危机不仅威胁着SFO的安全，而且还可能进一步拉大我国经济中最富有和最贫穷国家之间的差距。《机场健康条例》将有助于结束机场一线工作人员的这种自下而上的竞争，”曼德尔曼在一份声明中说。
“Workers at SFO are mostly Black, Latino and API (Asian Pacific Islander) workers, and they have been already hard-hit by this pandemic. I am committed to supporting these workers, and every day that we fail to take action is another day that airport workers risk COVID-19 exposure without affordable health care for themselves and their families,” Haney said.
他说:“SFO的工人大多是黑人、拉丁裔和亚太岛民，他们已经受到了疫情的严重打击。我致力于支持这些工作人员，每一天我们不采取行动，机场工作人员就有可能面临新冠肺炎的风险，他们自己和家人得不到负担得起的医疗保健。”
The ordinance follows years of organizing by airport workers and union leaders to get airport employers to expand coverage options. Within the past year, dozens of SFO workers have been arrested, along with a handful of San Francisco supervisors including Walton, during sit-ins at SFO calling for more worker benefits.
多年来，机场工人和工会领导人一直在组织机场雇主扩大医疗保险覆盖面。在过去的一年里，数十名SFO的工人和包括沃尔顿在内的几名旧金山监工在SFO举行静坐示威，要求为工人提供更多福利时被逮捕。
原链接：
https://localnewsmatters.org/2020/11/11/san-francisco-supes-expand-health-care-coverage-for-airport-workers/
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