In mid-April, UNITE HERE Local 17 appealed to supporters for immediate phone calls and e-mails to help save the jobs of four longtime cafeteria workers at the BAE plant in Fridley.
For decades, Local 17 had a contract with ARAMARK, which operated the cafeteria there. But recently Cassidy & Turley, the real estate management company for the facility, decided to bring in Taher Food Service to replace ARAMARK.
The four cafeteria workers delivered a letter April 10 to Tom Veirling, site manager for Cassidy & Turley, who reportedly told Taher not to hire them: “All of us have families and struggling through these rough economic times has been difficult, but now they will become a lot more difficult as we lose our incomes and health insurance. How do you separate decent behavior and kindness to others with this heartless act you are committing?”
Thursday, April 11 was the last day on the job for the four cafeteria workers, who worked at the cafeteria 8 years, 13 years, 16 years and 33 years respectively.
Local 17 distributed flyers about the cafeteria workers’ plight on the windshields of the cars in the parking lot at the BAE plant. The workers “don’t deserve to be tossed out like paper cups,” the flyer read.
Local 17 flyers, together with a Labor Review story on the Workday Minnesota website, helped generate phone calls and e-mails to Cassidy & Turley and to Taher.
Local 17 also went to work to find new jobs for the cafeteria workers with other Local 17 employers.
The union helped place three of the four workers in new positions, Local 17 senior Vice President Martin Goff reported April 17. (The fourth worker, for personal reasons, planned to take some time off.) “They were scared but they know their union took care of them,” Goff said.
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.
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In mid-April, UNITE HERE Local 17 appealed to supporters for immediate phone calls and e-mails to help save the jobs of four longtime cafeteria workers at the BAE plant in Fridley.
For decades, Local 17 had a contract with ARAMARK, which operated the cafeteria there. But recently Cassidy & Turley, the real estate management company for the facility, decided to bring in Taher Food Service to replace ARAMARK.
The four cafeteria workers delivered a letter April 10 to Tom Veirling, site manager for Cassidy & Turley, who reportedly told Taher not to hire them: “All of us have families and struggling through these rough economic times has been difficult, but now they will become a lot more difficult as we lose our incomes and health insurance. How do you separate decent behavior and kindness to others with this heartless act you are committing?”
Thursday, April 11 was the last day on the job for the four cafeteria workers, who worked at the cafeteria 8 years, 13 years, 16 years and 33 years respectively.
Local 17 distributed flyers about the cafeteria workers’ plight on the windshields of the cars in the parking lot at the BAE plant. The workers “don’t deserve to be tossed out like paper cups,” the flyer read.
Local 17 flyers, together with a Labor Review story on the Workday Minnesota website, helped generate phone calls and e-mails to Cassidy & Turley and to Taher.
Local 17 also went to work to find new jobs for the cafeteria workers with other Local 17 employers.
The union helped place three of the four workers in new positions, Local 17 senior Vice President Martin Goff reported April 17. (The fourth worker, for personal reasons, planned to take some time off.) “They were scared but they know their union took care of them,” Goff said.
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.
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