Cafeteria workers vote to unionize
Source: BY CYNTHIA NEEDHAM, Providence Journal (RI), Wednesday, February 8, 2006
WOONSOCKET -- Sodexho food services workers in the city's schools have voted to unionize, officials for both sides say. In a 38-to-19 vote taken Jan. 27, the district's cafeteria workers -- employed by Sodexho -- voted to unionize under the United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 328, an AFL-CIO affiliate. Following that vote, each of the parties was given one week to file an objection, according to Bob Redbord, a deputy regional attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Boston. ...... Nationwide, 12.5 percent of Sodexho employees are unionized, according to Gordon, who called that figure "average or a little bit above average for the food services industry."