Say congradulations to the workers at Roncone’s Restaurant: they’ve just joined a union and they’re adding to the roles of a very important bloc of our nation’s workers. Union membership has steadily decreased over the decades, and in the last ten years, plummeted. But there’s a few more in Rochester, and that’s a good thing:
R News: As It Happens, Where It Happens
Labor leaders hope it will be the beginning of a trend to support workers and ultimately Rochester’s economy.Restaurant and hotel workers in Rochester really didn’t have an opportunity to organize until just over a year ago. That’s when the industrial union UNITE merged with HERE, the union that represents hotel and restaurant workers. Roncone?s is the first in Rochester to unionize. If labor leaders have their way, it won’t be the last.
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