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Aramark Resolves Workers’ Contract Concerns
Dining service workers and Aramark have resolved the contract negotiations that dragged through the summer and into the new school year. According to Dana Simon, UNITE HERE union representative, the corporation’s final offer was generous and ceded to many of the workers’ demands. Click here to read the rest of the article.
Brandeis Dining Hall Workers Win Contract
On October 10, 2011, Local 26 members at dining halls at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA ratified a new contract with Aramark that offers some of the same groundbreaking gains won by workers at Harvard dining halls last month. The new contract language offers new and improved health care and wage increases of $2.60 an…
Local 26 Harvard Members Win Groundbreaking Food Service Contract
Dining hall workers at Harvard, the country’s oldest university, have brought home a historic victory. UNITE HERE Local 26′s 550 members at Harvard started organizing a contract campaign a year ago to push Harvard to provide sustainable food and create sustainable jobs. While Harvard workers had decent pay and benefits, their real earnings had been…
Workers at Boston’s “Ames” hotel join UNITE HERE
On September 8th, 86 workers at “Ames,” a luxury boutique hotel in Boston, joined UNITE HERE Local 26. Ames is the 12th hotel to join Local 26 since 2000. Workers at the W hotel joined Local 26 earlier this year. Nicholas Panagakos, a doorman at the hotel, said, “I’ve worked at Ames for over a…
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