Andrew Sage
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We also just concluded a multi-day strike as an independent union at the end of November.
Yeah, so let's talk about that strike.
Well, actually, I guess, okay.
We should probably do the run-up to what has been happening until we got to that strike.
I'm getting strike excited.
No, no, this is how I've been in my mind since September, is just how do we make a strike happen?
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Yeah, let's talk about what the sort of lead-up stuff to the action were, and let's talk about what expanding was like.
Yeah, Abby, do you want to talk about the lead-up?
So we did a walkout over her termination.
We did a walkout in January of this past year after Blue Bottle completely refused to negotiate with us over the renovation of the Prudential Center.
For anybody that's wondering, no, the cafes in Boston did not have cameras in them for the entire time that we were organizing or unionized until we began negotiating the installation of cameras as part of our contract.
When they felt like they were done talking about cameras with us, they declared impasse, which they can't do because we were negotiating it as part of the contract.