00:00In Boston, after a month of protests, over 1,000 workers remain on the streets demanding their labor rights.
00:07Our correspondent, Dan Albright, brings us the details.
00:14More than 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor here have now been on strike for a month.
00:20Workers represented by Unite Here Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 are bargaining together.
00:26They say that at this five-star resort, they should have the same wage standard already won at Union Hotels
00:32across Boston.
00:39We made this place a five-star resort. It's not the stockholders. It's not the managers. It's these people. Day
00:47in, day out. We work.
00:49Wynn has kept the property open during the strike using temporary replacement workers, managers performing bargaining unit jobs, and non
00:58-union dealers taking overtime in other classifications.
01:02My own managers were happily telling me that they were going to be bartending or doing any of the other
01:09jobs, like cleaning restrooms and stuff.
01:11Workers say Wynn has still not moved meaningfully at the bargaining table.
01:16Wynn says its union workforce averages more than $95,000 a year in total compensation, and that wages and benefits
01:23have risen faster than revenue.
01:25Encore still generated about $847 million last year at this property.
01:31Part of Wynn resorts more than $7 billion in global revenue.
01:35Labor researcher Steve Strifler says both unions have shown a willingness to strike.
01:40He says Local 26 also draws strength from high union density across Boston hotels and deep organizing between contract lengths.
01:49I think core to it is sort of a deep commitment to organizing, making sure they're engaged, involved in the
01:55union.
01:55And then they sort of essentially draw the line and say, look, if we don't get these demands, we are
02:01sufficiently organized that we are going to go on strike.
02:04And then they follow through.
02:05If we don't get it! If we don't get it!
02:09Accommodation and food service workers recorded more work stoppages than any other U.S. industry last year.
02:15One month in, house worker and picket captain Amore Rivera says the strike will continue as long as it needs
02:22to.
02:23We're not going back until we get all we're asking for.
02:26One day longer! One day longer!
02:31From Everett, Massachusetts, Stan Albright, Telesaur English.
