Landmark Theaters Employee Union

Please Join Us For A

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).

Start: Jul 22 2006 - 2:00pm
End: Jul 22 2006 - 3:00pm

Event Details:

Shattuckunion workers begin contract talks with Landmark corporate attorneys on July 20th. Shattuckunion Rally on July 22 at 2pm in front of the theater. Workers need union and community supporters to tell the company we are not willing to accept a bad deal. Please organize yourself and your friends and associates to attend this rally. Mark your calendar.

For more information, visit our website: shattuckunion.iww.org

Please make every effort to attend this very important meeting.  If you need a ride, please contact me at roadtonowhere333@yahoo.com and we'll arrange for you to be there.

Subject: Contract Proposal Meeting

Date: Sunday - August 28, 2005

Time: 9 a.m.

Place: Cambridge Marriott – 2 Cambridge Center Broadway – Cambridge MA.

Proposals will be accepted either verbally or in writing.

A vote will be taken to elect a representative from the Kendall Square Bargaining Unit. This representative will negotiate on behalf of all the Kendall Square employees along with Local 791’s Negotiating Committee.