{"id":2216002,"date":"2025-12-29T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2216002"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:58:28","slug":"fenway-park-and-mgm-music-hall-concession-workers-celebrate-new-labor-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fenway-park-and-mgm-music-hall-concession-workers-celebrate-new-labor-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall concession workers celebrate new labor contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fenway Park’s food vendor and concession staff ratified a new five-year labor contract over the weekend, according to the union representing over a thousand of the workers.<\/p>\n

The agreement, which also includes several dozen MGM Music Hall employees, brings to an end year-long labor negotiations between Aramark, the food service provider for both venues, and its concession workers, according to Unite Here Local 26.<\/p>\n

Speaking Monday at the union’s Boston office, Unite Here Local 26 President Carlos Aramayo called the contract an \u201cextraordinary settlement\u201d that fulfills \u201call of the goals\u201d the union sought to achieve since\u00a0the last contract expired\u00a0in December 2024.<\/p>\n

The agreement raises the wages of non-tipped workers by $10 through 2029. Workers in tip-based roles will get a $5 wage increase over the same time frame. Gratuity for catering at the park increases from 15% to 17%, and vendors received a 1% increase to their commissions.<\/p>\n

Aramayo said the new agreement \u201ccloses the gap\u201d between wages earned by Fenway workers and other Major League ballpark employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re going to see folks at Fenway starting to earn on par with Yankee Stadium, with\u00a0[the] Marlin[‘s] Stadium, with places like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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From left, union members Austin Petruzziello, Lauren Casello, Joe Baio and union President Carlos Aramayo pose for a photo after announcing a new contract between the Fenway concession workers union and the park. (Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez\/WBUR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The agreement comes after months of grueling mediation sessions and what is believed to be the first union strike<\/a> in Fenway\u2019s history in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came out well in the end, we got a fair contract,\u201d said Austin Petruzziello, a Fenway vendor who has worked at the ballpark for 10 seasons. \u201cIt’s not just about the higher wages, it’s about the respect as well. We now have staffing mandates and stable schedules so no\u00a0<\/em>one’s getting overworked like they were before.\u201d<\/p>\n

A statement provided to WBUR from the Philadelphia-based Aramark on Monday said the company values its employees and is “pleased to have reached an agreement in this process that works for both parties.”<\/p>\n

“We remain focused on delivering an outstanding experience for the fans, customers and clients at Fenway and MGM Music Hall now and into the future,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wbur.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fenway Park’s food vendor and concession staff ratified a new five-year labor contract over the weekend, according to the union representing over a thousand of the workers. The agreement, which also includes several dozen MGM Music Hall employees, brings to an end year-long labor negotiations between Aramark, the food service provider for both venues, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2216003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Fenway-Park-and-MGM-Music-Hall-concession-workers-celebrate-new.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216004,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216002\/revisions\/2216004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}