Camden Yards concession contractors call on Orioles to help

[Going Underground]

On a day when they typically would have been hawking hot dogs or pouring drinks to a sold-out, Opening Day crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the food service workers who are contracted to work at the stadium instead were calling for help.

 

“We ask that the Orioles make the same commitment,” the letter signed by Herbekian said. “Though the concession workers are not employed by the Orioles or Camden Yards directly, they have worked hard through the years to make Orioles’ games a success. The contracted concession workers at Camden Yards are loyal workers and loyal fans.”

 

The Orioles referred comment to Delaware North, whose spokeswoman sent along a Wednesday announcement that the company was laying off two-thirds of its full-time staff and no longer scheduling part-time staff.

Herbekian said they’d had no response from either side as of Thursday morning.

That the union workers are employees of Delaware North and not the Orioles is complicated. While the Orioles haven’t announced plans to use the $1 million allocated by MLB for each team’s seasonal employees during the shutdown, that money is set aside for that purpose.

 

With Delaware North’s mass layoffs, the union is turning to the Orioles for help. Herbekian said the union’s experience has typically been that Angelos and his son, executive vice president John Angelos, “have been sensitive to the needs of our members.” She cited the Freddie Gray situation as an example.

“In other instances when we’ve gone to Mr. Angelos and the team with concerns, they’ve been extremely responsive,” Herbekian said. “It’s our hope that the team will continue in that same vein and we can figure out a way that we can get resources to the men and women who work in the stadium and their families during this very difficult time.”

 

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-concession-contractors-coronavirus-relief-20200326-2isj42xj7bfsbgbmgyruqcxn5i-story.html

 

[Can_of_corn]

I wonder if the sons are as pro-union as the father?

[Mr. Chewbacca Jr.]

47 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I wonder if the sons are as pro-union as the father?

I guess we'll find out. Hopefully they are.