{"id":588,"date":"2013-03-28T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2015-07-01T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:23:35","slug":"the-penn-dining-hall-workers-are-organizing-without-a-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"The Penn Dining Hall Workers Are Organizing Without A Union."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Pennsylvanian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e', '\u201cThis is it. This is history,\u201d said Kareem Wallace, a cook at Penn Hillel\u2019s Falk Dining Commons, as he clutched a document that marked the debut of a campaign for \u201ca better future\u201d for him and his colleagues&#8230;.');\">\u201cThis is it. This is history,\u201d said Kareem Wallace, a cook at Penn Hillel\u2019s Falk Dining Commons, as he clutched a document that marked the debut of a campaign for \u201ca better future\u201d for him and his colleagues&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e', 'On Monday morning, he and seven Student Labor Action Project members delivered a concerted activity letter to the Penn Business Services office to notify Penn of the employees\u2019 organizing efforts. Eleven dining hall workers signed the document&#8230;.');\">On Monday morning, he and seven Student Labor Action Project members delivered a concerted activity letter to the Penn Business Services office to notify Penn of the employees\u2019 organizing efforts. Eleven dining hall workers signed the document&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e', 'Another copy of the letter was delivered to the National Labor Relations Board. Nancy Cleland,\u00a0NLRB\u00a0Director of Public Affairs, said though the agency will not get involved unless there is a retaliation against the workers, \u201cwe are going to defend [the workers\u2019] right to ask for more money.\u201d&#8230;');\">Another copy of the letter was delivered to the National Labor Relations Board. Nancy Cleland,\u00a0NLRB\u00a0Director of Public Affairs, said though the agency will not get involved unless there is a retaliation against the workers, \u201cwe are going to defend [the workers\u2019] right to ask for more money.\u201d&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e', 'But 109 full-time employees in Hillel\u2019s dining hall, the school cafes and Houston Market work for Bon App\u00e9tit&#8230;');\">But 109 full-time employees in Hillel\u2019s dining hall, the school cafes and Houston Market work for Bon App\u00e9tit&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/r\/d30add7e', 'they do not participate in the collective bargaining agreement \u2014 an agreement between Penn and\u00a0AFSCME&#8230;&#8221;');\">they do not participate in the collective bargaining agreement \u2014 an agreement between Penn and\u00a0AFSCME&#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Pennsylvanian&#8230; \u201cThis is it. This is history,\u201d said Kareem Wallace, a cook at Penn Hillel\u2019s Falk Dining Commons, as he clutched a document that marked the debut of a campaign for \u201ca better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=588'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>The Penn Dining Hall Workers Are Organizing Without A Union.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,28],"tags":[10,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}