INGLEWOOD.- Hundreds of workers SoFi Stadium of Los Angeles began voting this Thursday on a proposal to go on strike during the World Cup of football, which starts in a week, after negotiations for their security and salary demands stalled.
The vote took place at the union offices Unite Here Local 11 in inglewood (south of Los Angeles) and will run until Friday night.
The union represents about 2,000 employees in the stadium’s food and beverage concessions and suites, including cooks, servers and dishwashers.
SoFi Stadium will host eight World Cup matches, starting with the first duel on US soil that will be played on June 12 by the host team and Paraguay.
The vote comes after weeks of fruitless negotiations with Legends Globalthe company that operates the food services of the most expensive sports venue in the world, inaugurated in 2020 at a cost of more than $5 billion.
The workers have demanded guarantees that there will be no presence of the federal agency at the World Cup matches ICEspearhead of the president’s anti-immigration offensive donald trump and the target of criticism from human rights organizations for his brutal raids in different cities, including Los Angeles.
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Employees also express concern about having to hand over personal information to the FIFA to be accredited, as they fear that it could be shared with immigration agencies.
Better income
The demands also cover an improvement in workers’ salary conditions.
“We are asking for fair and decent salaries for us, because they are going to earn a lot of money from this event,” he told AFP. Yolanda Fierroresponsible for suites at the stadium.
“The other issue is the presence of ICE. I work with people from different countries, mainly Spanish-speaking, and we want our colleagues to feel that they can be safe, that they are not going to be harassed or be afraid that they are going to be detained,” he said.
The union did not clarify what type of actions will be carried out in the event that the workers authorize the strike and an agreement is not reached for the start of the strike. World Cup.
