Courtesy of SEIU

Airline-contracted workers at National Airport have postponed their first-ever strike, planned to start this evening and continue for 24 hours, following the terrorist attacks in Belgium that killed 30 people—including 10 dead and 100 wounded at Brussels’ international airport.

“We stand in solidarity with the Brussels Airport workers and our thoughts and prayers are with the families that lost loved ones in this senseless tragedy,” said Legesse Woldearegay a customer service agent for airline contractor Eulen America. “We must all work together to make our airports as safe as they can possibly be.”

Workers are calling for the ability to organize and for $15 an hour wages from their employers Eulen America and Airport Terminal Services Inc., who service Delta and American Airlines.

National joins airports in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, and Fort Lauderdale, where airport workers planned to strike as part of Airport Workers United. The group says thousands of workers, with jobs ranging from baggage handlers and terminal cleaners to terminal security officers and wheelchair agents, were ready to participate.

On Martin Luther King Day, DCA workers blocked traffic near the MLK Memorial in protest of inequalities. Right before Thanksgiving, on on of the busiest travel days of the year, workers at the airport fasted for 24 hours in protest of low wages.

According to the service workers union SEIU, some airport workers make as little as $6.75 per hour without employer-paid health care. And for employees who depend on tips, it can be even less. David Tucker, a 75-year-old who has been working as a porter at DCA for 53 years, still only makes $3.77 an hour plus tips.