Expressing Council’s support for food service workers at the Philadelphia Sports Complex and urging Aramark to negotiate fair and equitable contracts that provide these workers with a standard minimum wage and healthcare coverage. WHEREAS, Food service workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 274 and employed by Aramark at the three professional sports stadiums in Philadelphia’s Sports Complex are in negotiations for new collective bargaining agreements with their employer; and WHEREAS, Workers and their representatives at UNITE HERE have been negotiating the terms of new collective bargaining agreements with Aramark since December 2023, but these negotiations have not resulted in agreements that meet the needs of workers and provide fair, family-sustaining wages and reasonable healthcare benefits. Seeing insufficient progress in negotiations, workers employed by Aramark at the Wells Fargo Center voted to authorize a strike at that facility, with 92% of members voting in favor, and engaged in a one-day strike on April 9, 2024, the first strike at the facility in over 20 years; and WHEREAS, Key issues in the ongoing negotiations between UNITE HERE and Aramark include workers’ demands for standard minimum wage rates across the three stadium venues and for healthcare coverage to be provided to individuals who work for Aramark year-round at the Sports Complex. Currently, individuals performing the same work for Aramark at different stadiums are paid different hourly minimum rates …
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