Demanding that fresh, locally-sourced food be a requirement in concession changes in O’Hare, a group of airport workers represented by Unite Here Local 1, delivered a report to the Chicago Department of Aviation this morning with suggestions for the airport’s new food and beverage contracts.
A report done by the organization Unite Here Local 1 exemplified the demand for fresher food at Chicago’s expansive O’Hare airport. Unite Here 1 Local represents cooks, servers, bartenders and baristas at O’Hare.
UNITE HERE Local 1 food workers at O’Hare International Airport recently released a new report, Putting Sustainability on the Table: Airport Workers’ Vision for $3 Billion of Food and Drink at O’Hare.
Sustainable airport food? It might be coming, if O’Hare workers have anything to say about it.
A new survey by Unite Here Local 1, which represents more than 1,100 cooks, servers, bartenders and baristas at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, reveals that there is strong demand for better, fresher food. The report, “Putting Sustainability on the Table: Airport Workers’ Vision for $3 Billion of Food and Drink at O’Hare,” finds that both passengers and workers want more access to healthy, local, fresh food.
It’s not the usual subject of union activism, but fresh, locally sourced food is on the list of changes airport workers want to see at O’Hare International Airport’s three domestic terminals.
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