“If it’s clean, we just keep going, because we have to get off,” said Ms. Gomez, who complained to the service employees’ union. Two co-workers echoed those details and named other potential hazards, like beginning their cleanup before passengers disembarked, increasing the risk of close contact. “Some nights we’re out of rags, completely out,” Ms. Gomez said. A spokesman for her employer, JetStream Ground Services, disputed that account, saying it had added extra staff for each cleaning and made available as many rags as necessary. But rags are not supposed to be used, let alone reused, according to a spokesman for American Airlines.

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2020 18:41 UTC