About 200 airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday to protest what they say is a lack of sufficient protection from exposure to Ebola for workers whose jobs include cleaning up vomit and bathrooms.

Picket lines were set up overnight by nonunionized Air Serv cleaners outside Terminal D at LaGuardia for a one-day strike prompted by fears about the deadly virus, forcing airline crews to clean the planes themselves.

"We have to deal with vomit. We get insufficient materials to work, like gloves that break," Air Serv cabin cleaner Antonia Alvarado said in a statement released by Service Employees International Union, the nation's largest service workers union.