Labor & Employment Law

Loyola University Chicago Dining Workers Join UNITE HERE

By James Parks

Loyola University Chicago dining workers celebrate after voting to join UNITE HERE.

After months of organizing, more than 200 campus dining workers at Loyola University Chicago voted for a voice on the job, choosing to join UNITE HERE 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 healthcare 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.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).