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100 Airport food workers ratify first contract!!!
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5456
3 March 2013
BLOOMINGTON - new bargaining unit of 100 restaurant and food service workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport has ratified a first-time contract.
UNITE HERE Local 17 organized the workers under a national neutrality agreement with SSP America, which operates airport food concessions at 140 airports and 250 rail stations worldwide.
“It took us a while to organize them,” reported Martin Goff, Local 17 senior vice president. But after a pause in the organizing effort, he related, nearly 80 percent of the workers signed union authorization cards.
The new three-year agreement provides workers with pay raises, daily over-time, holiday pay, and paid vacation.
FULL story at link.
