Cypress Edition | March 2022

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Houstonmayor announces pledge to raise minimumwage for airport workers by 2023

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BY SOFIA GONZALEZ

us,” McClatchie said. “It gives me great joy and great passion to be one of the front-line workers risking our lives, our health to make sure that the airport is running smooth[ly]. There is now light at the end of the tunnel.” Turner said the pay increase will help thousands of Houston families improve their lives. At the press con- ference, he also announced the city of Houston and Houston First will be raising the hourly pay for janitorial and security contracts with the city to $15 by December. “Today’s minimum wage increase announcements for municipal and contracted service-related employ- ees demonstrate the city’s com- mitment to its employees and their families,” Turner said in a statement. “As a world-class city, we need a larger base of higher-paying jobs. I hope that our city’s largest employ- ers will follow the city of Houston’s lead and do their part to raise their minimum wage.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner signed an executive order at a Feb. 16 press conference raising the minimumwage for airport workers in Houston to $15 by 2023. In 2019, Turner signed a similar executive order, which raised the minimum wage up from $7.25 to $12 for airport workers at George Bush Intercontinental, William P. Hobby and Ellington airports. Teresa McClatchie, an escalator guard at Bush Airport, said the ght for a wage increase has been ongo- ing for the past six years. Speaking at the press conference, she said airport workers make sacrices to take care of the basic needs for their families with some working multiple jobs to make ends meet. McClatchie said she knows work- ers who have been at Bush Airport for over 20 years who were paid what she called “poverty wages.” “This is a monumental thing for

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Board approves Cypress hospital plans

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email to employees that the facility will be “designed as the hospital of the future” and will showcase the health care system’s commitment to innovation. The 400-bed hospital will be modeled after the comprehensive Houston Methodist West and Houston Methodist The Woodlands facilities. Boom said the Cypress hospital will also incorporate technological advancements from the health care system’s Center for Innovation, which launched in 2018. “At Houston Methodist we keep the patient at the center of everything we do, and this new hospital will be no exception,” he said in the email.

Ocials with Houston Methodist announced Feb. 10 the board of directors had approved plans for the system’s ninth hospital, which will be in Cypress. The 106-acre property is located o Hwy. 290 between Barker Cypress and Skinner roads and was formerly occupied by Sysco Corp. Community Impact Newspaper rst conrmed the new development last May. Construction is expected to begin in the next fewmonths, ocials said, and the hospital is slated to open in the rst quarter of 2025. Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Meth- odist president and CEO, said in an

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CYPRESS EDITION • MARCH 2022