'This strike was so worth it to give my family a better life,' said one UniteHereLocal2 member.
"This strike was so worth it to give my family a better life," said Blanca Gay, a snack bar attendant who has worked at SFO for 30 years."My son is in college, but he had to switch from full-time to part-time just so he could work."
"With the raises we won, I can help my son go back to school full-time," Gay continued."All the hard work and sacrifice of the strike has paid off for my family." The union, which negotiated the deal with the SFO Airport Restaurant Employer Council, called the pay hikes"" but said the details of the agreement won't be released until after the workforce holds a ratification vote on Sunday. In August, 99.7% of SFO food service workers voted to authorize the strike.
"This victory shows the world that fast-food jobs can in fact be good, family-sustaining jobs, and it's all because workers had the courage to strike," Anand Singh, president of UNITE HERE Local 2, said in a statement."After three years without a raise, SFO's fast-food workers were tired of working two or even three jobs just to survive—so they took their lives into their own hands and won a better future.
The strike by SFO workers came amid a broader wave of labor actions across the United States as companies continue to rake in
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