Landmark Theaters Employee Union

That’s right, Kendall Square Cinema’s very own house manager,
Howie Sandler,  was named Landmark’s manager of the year.

Congratulations!

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KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA
One Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139

For Information please call the
Local 791 union office at 1-800-535-2752
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 791

One year ago the Kendall Square Cinema staff voted 17-1 to join UFCW Local 791.  Today, we
still do not have a contract. However, with 65% of the staff involved in the vote still working at the Kendall, new employees taking part in the process, negotiations continuing at a regular pace,  plus our new drum-beating, song-singing, BFFs at the Shattuck …we’re still going strong.

Maybe if we had reached this point without support of patrons, local activist groups and all the well wishes from you all who read this site, or maybe if another Landmark hadn’t voted to join a union, we could be dismissed as just a bunch of disgruntled
ruffians and scalawags.

That’s not the case, give or take a scalawag.

Over the past three years, three Landmarks held union elections.  While we’ve all worked together, all three discussed unionizing before contacting each other. Theatres in Minneapolis, Cambridge and Berkeley are reacting to cultural shift taking place in the service industry.  We don’t live in a vacuum.   Look at Borders and Starbucks.  Check out what Chicago is doing.  And the current minimum wage increases being debated.

And to everyone else who has been asking about organizing, why not?  What do you have to loose?  Just a $7.00 an hour job that may or may not give you a raise, where you are an “at-will” employee who can be fired at the
drop of a hat (literally, they could fire you for dropping your hat there's nothing you can do about it).

The Brattle Film Foundation's Movie Watch-a-Thon fundraiser wraps up this coming Sunday, December 4. Please consider sponsoring the Chlotrudis team in its efforts to raise money for the "Preserve the Brattle Legacy" campaign .

As you all know, the Brattle Film Foundation must raise a substantial amount of money by the end of the year or face the prospect closing the doors to the Brattle Theatre.

Check out the Globe piece:

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2005/10/16/theater_focuses_on_its_fund_raising_campaign/