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School Committee Rescinds Cuts After NAGE, Cafeteria Workers Protest

With private meetings and public protests, the Worcester, Mass. school cafeteria workers and NAGE National Representative Bernie Loughnane convinced the School Committee to restore the cuts made to the workers’ hours.

For next year’s budget, School Committee members had originally proposed eliminating 23 vacant cafeteria positions and reducing the hours of the remaining 45 lunch workers by as much as 10 hours a week. The city notified Loughnane about the reductions in May. He and the Local R01-016 executive board met with the HR manager but the meeting didn’t yield any solution. He then wrote to the HR manager demanding that the city cease and desist the changes, which violated both civil service and the state’s collective bargaining law. The HR manager blamed the union for what he called an impasse (even though there had been no bargaining, as the law required) and sent out the reduction letters in early June. Read More