Loyola University Chicago Dining Workers Join UNITEHERE!

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/11/17/loyola-university-chicago-dining-workers-join-unite-here/

by James Parks, Nov 17, 2010


Campus dining workers at Loyola University Chicago celebrate after voting to join UNITEHERE.


After months of organizing, more than 200 campus dining workers at Loyola University Chicago voted for a voice on the job, choosing to join UNITEHERE! Local 1.

Janet Irving, a member of the worker organizing committee, says:

I feel blessed. A union means a better life for me and my family.

The Loyola workers join dining workers at DePaul University who are also members of Local 1 and who recently won a new contract, which includes significant improvements in wages and health care benefits as well as protections for immigrant workers.

Loyola dining service worker Eva Rangel adds:

I love taking care of the students in the dining halls, and I feel great that now I will get to do it as a union member.