Meeting reviews Aramark negotiations
, Vice President of UNITE HERE Local 7, Gladys Burrell, Financial Secretary of UNITE HERE Local 7 and Robert Day, a Hopkins graduate student and volunteer for UNITE HERE Local 7, led the meeting. They updated the attendees on the union's latest contract concerns and ways to support their cause."Our goal was to be honest and really tell people what is going on," , Vice President of the Hopkins College Democrats, said.
Students attending the event seemed very eager to assist the workers. Since the food service employees remain when a new company is hired, one student asked if they should pressure the University into stipulating that future food service companies adhere to certain guidelines when negotiating contracts with the employees, such as maintaining the level of benefits the workers have.
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UNITE HERE Local 7, the workers' union representing the food service employees at Hopkins, hosted a student-worker briefing last night on the current status of contract negotiations with their company, Aramark. The majority of significant terms have
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Obama names three to White House APIA Initiative | Asian American ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 7, 2011) — Last week President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate May Y. Chen, Tung Thanh Nguyen and Apolo Anton Ohno to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He also nominated Janet R. Kahn as a Member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.
May Y. Chen is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York, where she has taught labor studies courses and coordinated labor exchanges with Asia for the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies since 2009.
Previously, Ms. Chen was the International Union Vice President for Workers United, Service Employees International Union in 2009. She served as the International Union Vice President of UNITE HERE from 1999 to 2009, and Local 23-25 Manager and New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board Secretary-Treasurer from 2004 to 2009.
In her time at UNITE HERE, Ms. Chen held a number of positions, including Assistant/Associate Manager from 1997 to 2004 and Assistant Director and Director of the Education Department from 1989 to 1997. From 1970 to 1979, she was an adjunct professor and teacher at several schools and universities in California, including the University of California at Los Angeles and California State University at Long Beach.
Ms. Chen is a Founding Member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and continues to serve on its New York Chapter Board. She also serves as Board President of the New York State Immigrant Action Fund. She holds an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard/Radcliffe College and an M.A. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Tung Thanh Nguyen is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he provides medical care to a diverse patient population and teaches clinicians. He also serves as Director of the Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project and Principal Investigator of the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training at UCSF, and in this role conducts research in health care prevention for Asian Americans.