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“One of the things that can tell you the economy has gotten better is to look up and see cranes in the sky.” Tracy Parks, a member of the Boston Workers Alliance and Laborers’ Local 151, told me that recently. And, it is not just cranes in the sky, but also shovels in the ground. […]
Hotel workers picketed outside the Hilton Boston Downtown in the Financial District yesterday, marching and chanting to protest what organizers say is an anti-union campaign being conducted by hotel management. The employees recently notified management that they wanted to form a union. Since then, according to the head of the local hospitality workers union, managers […]
On December 2, Restaurant Associates / Compass workers at Harvard Law School became the newest members of UNITE HERE Local 26. “It’s been a long time coming,” said RA Union committee leader Willie Moore. “And now, if you take one of us on, you take all of us on.” The Law School workers organized throughout […]
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.
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.