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Omaha Steve

(106,753 posts)
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 03:12 PM Aug 4

Fenway Park Workers Warn of Indefinite Strike Against Aramark

Source: Sportico

By Jason Clinkscales August 4, 2025 9:30am

Concession workers at Fenway Park may go back on strike—potentially indefinitely—if food and beverage vendor Aramark doesn’t offer a new labor contract.

On Wednesday, ahead of the Boston Red Sox’s series finale against the Houston Astros, Unite Here Local 26 will give Aramark a formal heads-up of a potential strike. It comes over a week after the unionized concession workers walked off the job on July 25 for three days during the series against the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

The two sides have been at odds since Dec. 31, 2024, when the previous contract expired. On June 15, while the Red Sox hosted the rival New York Yankees, Local 26 authorized a strike that could take place at any point during the regular season, with 95% of its members voting in favor. A few weeks later on July 23, the union gave Aramark 48 hours to offer a new contract before walking off the job; the company let the deadline pass, leading to the three-day strike.

Peter Dankens, a beer server who began working at the ballpark in 1976 as a 14-year-old porter, is the longest-tenured vendor at Fenway and a member of the union’s bargaining committee. In the last talks between the two sides prior to the July strike, Dankens said that he was taken aback by a comment from one of Aramark’s negotiators.


Unite Here Local 26 handed out baseball cards of Fenway's food and beverage workers to fans wanting to support them.
Illustration by Lorenzo Gordon

Read more: https://www.sportico.com/leagues/baseball/2025/fenway-park-concession-workers-indefinite-strike-aramark-1234865830/

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Fenway Park Workers Warn of Indefinite Strike Against Aramark (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 4 OP
This comes at a pretty charged time mahina Aug 4 #1
They should strike. Aramark is a massive food distributor that has sketchy problems because of its ancianita Aug 4 #2
Go Local 26! JMCKUSICK Aug 4 #3
Players should refuse to play until they get a contract to their liking MichMan Aug 4 #4

mahina

(20,007 posts)
1. This comes at a pretty charged time
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 03:17 PM
Aug 4

I’m sure they know what they’re doing and I wish them all the best in the world.

The shame and incoming verbal commentary by your neighbors as you sit there, munching your popcorn, would be memorable.

Sox fans are so calm and rational…

Also, Yankees suck.

ancianita

(41,430 posts)
2. They should strike. Aramark is a massive food distributor that has sketchy problems because of its
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 03:31 PM
Aug 4

monopolistic cost cutting practices that lead to bad food. Aramark is one of the visible features of what's wrong with the current immigration-industrial complex and "serving" large scale university and public school systems.

...Aramark has also been the subject of a number of scandals regarding labor practices and business ethics. These include firing workers for reporting unsanitary food conditions, paying fringe wages, not paying for all hours worked, not paying backpay, and firing or eliminating the positions of those who file Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims...

In 2013, an investigation by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges discovered that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was substandard and spoiled, and often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting.[45] Maggots found in the food preparation areas at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan, may have been the source of an outbreak of food-borne illness.[46][47]

Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at Michigan's Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center[48] and two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute.[49]...
Likewise, Aramark has been criticized for skimping portion sizes, food safety issues, and overcharging state governments (Michigan, Kentucky, and Florida) that have used their food in prisons; a Kentucky prison riot is reputed to have been caused by the low quality of food Aramark provided to inmates.[54][55]...

In Ireland, Aramark has been criticised for its management of three 'direct provision' centres, where those seeking asylum in Ireland must stay until their application is complete, sometimes for a matter of years.[56] Activists have called for boycotting Aramark for profiting off the direct provision system, as well as the alleged mistreatment of asylum seekers in Aramark-run centres.[57]

In 2014, asylum seekers in County Meath launched a hunger strike over the "unacceptable living standards" in the Aramark-run centre.[58] In 2018, Aramark was forced to apologise after a mother of three from Zimbabwe was refused a slice of bread for her sick child.[59] Soon after, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) voted to support a boycott of Aramark over its direct provision links, following on from the 'Aramark off our campus' campaigns at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD), and the University of Limerick

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