{"id":404018,"date":"2026-08-12T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:06:08","slug":"houston-airport-workers-set-to-receive-pay-increase-mayor-whitmire-and-union-leaders-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404018\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston airport workers set to receive pay increase, Mayor Whitmire and union leaders announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor John Whitmire and SEIU Texas President Elsa Flores are expected to discuss the salary increase Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Passengers start lining up in baggage claim for a security checkpoint a floor above at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo\/David J. Phillip) (David J. Phillip,  Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Houston airport workers are set to receive a salary increase, according to the City of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Mayor John Whitmire and Elsa Flores, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Texas, are scheduled to announce details of the pay increase during a press conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The city has not yet released details about the amount of the salary increase, which airport workers will be affected or when the raises will take effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KPRC 2 will provide more information following Wednesday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBrittany Taylor headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/3TMX3YN53ZCG7B7DUW4BCA3LAA\/\" title=\"View Brittany Taylor&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Award-winning journalist, mother, YouTuber, social media guru, millennial, mentor, storyteller, University of Houston alumna and Houston-native.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor John Whitmire and SEIU Texas President Elsa Flores are expected to discuss the salary increase Wednesday Passengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,5126,58,57,4024],"class_list":["post-404018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-airport","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}