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Omaha Steve

(103,510 posts)
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 07:47 PM Nov 2015

Dozens of lawmakers back Senate cafeteria union drive


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/13/dozens-of-lawmakers-back-senate-cafeteria-union-drive.html

Harry Reid, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders sign open letter asking management to allow unionization by majority vote
November 13, 2015 1:30PM ET

by Ned Resnikoff

After months of publicly demanding union recognition, the people who serve U.S. senators their crab cakes and curry spiced salmon have won the support of some of their most powerful customers.

On Friday, 33 members of the Democratic caucus — representing 75 percent of all Democrats in the Senate — issued an open letter to the CEO of Compass Group, asking that it grant union recognition if a majority of Senate cafeteria employees express a desire to unionize. Compass Group, a private firm based in the United Kingdom, manages the Senate cafeteria through its subsidiary, Restaurant Associates.

“The time has come for the Compass Group to ensure Senate cafeteria workers have a model employer that addresses its workers’ legitimate concerns,” said the letter, which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont, among others. “We request therefore that the Compass Group commit to reaching an agreement with the union seeking to organize these workers."

Such an agreement, the senators said, must require that the company “recognize the union as the worker’s exclusive bargaining representative on the basis of a majority representation of signed authorization cards."

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Dozens of lawmakers back Senate cafeteria union drive (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2015 OP
Nice, but why post this multiple times? scscholar Nov 2015 #1
There are people that don't read all three forums Omaha Steve Nov 2015 #2
Senate food workers making starvation wages. National disgrace. Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #3

Omaha Steve

(103,510 posts)
2. There are people that don't read all three forums
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 07:53 PM
Nov 2015


Or even two. It belongs in GD to help educate on labor and how it works. Labor and S-P already know how things work, but can miss it in GD because that forum labor posts usually drop very fast.

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