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How Many Cooks Does It Take To Feed Kids Well?
Declaring New Haven’s nationally recognized school food program “in decline,” cafeteria workers called on the mayor to invest in more scratch cooking—and more cooks.The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 217, delivered that message in a visit to Mayor John DeStefano at City Hall. They handed him a copy of a new report calling on…
Cafeteria workers say to New Haven Public Schools: Let’s Cook!
Today, New Haven Public School (NHPS) cafeteria workers—members of UNITE HERE Local 217—released a report that underscores the need to bring back fresh cooked food to our schools. Entitled “Healthy Kids First: Why cafeteria workers want to cook fresh meals in New Haven Public Schools,” the report is the result of extensive surveys of frontline…
DENIED: Lodges at Phenix Glen Vote
The City Council tonight is expected to vote on the Lodges at Phenix Glen – a 192 unit high end residential apartment complex proposed off Phenix Avenue near the Cranston Animal Shelter and Route 37 and Interstate 295.
May Day rally focuses on immigrants
PROVIDENCE –– Chanting “the people united will never be defeated” and “no justice, no peace,” more than 200 people marched through the city’s streets Wednesday, before arriving at the State House for a May Day rally marked by calls for more protection for immigrant workers and for immigration reform.
Workers at Providence Renaissance Hotel Picket Hotel Abuses
On Thursday, April 4, Renaissance Hotel Workers, joined by the marching band the What Cheer? Brigade, over a hundred community members, and employees at other area hotels, picketed outside the Hotel to demand that management address appalling working conditions. Workers say the Providence Renaissance Hotel has always treated them poorly, but that conditions further deteriorated…
