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In a 99-1 vote<\/span> Wednesday night, food and beverage workers staffing Los Angeles\u2019 SoFi Stadium for theFIFA Men\u2019s World Cup ratified an agreement that includes better wages and protections around immigration enforcement\u2014a high-profile labor victory after months of dispute over poor pay and work without a contract amid<\/strong>huge employer revenues.<\/p>

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The workers include cooks, dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders, and servers at SoFi, whichwill host eight soccer matches in the coming weeks, and whoseoperator had previously ceased negotiations after multiple bargaining sessions failed to reach an agreement. After threatening a strike, the union workers won, among other things, contractual guarantees that allow themto walk off the job if federal immigration enforcement threatens worker safety during a match.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Athletic<\/em> last week, Kurt Petersen, the president of the union representing the food and beverage workers, UNITE HERE Local 11, said the stadium operator was \u201cnot taking the concerns and demands seriously enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buton Wednesday, workers ratified an agreement that the union said \u201cwon every major issue\u201d it had brought to the table, including raises of at least 30 percent, a housing fund, job protections, AI and automation restrictions, privacy rights around personal data, and walkout rights in the event of ICE raids or similar federal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis contract proves what workers can accomplish when we stand together,\u201d Susana Lahargue, a union member, said in a statement. \u201cWe are proud to welcome fans knowing that workers have secured a contract that respects our work and our dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The union announced last week that theworkers it represents had voted 96 percent in favor of authorizing a strikewith just days to go until the first World Cup match\u2014giving their employer every incentive to come back to the table.<\/p>

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As I wrote last week, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that \u201cevery single\u201d federal law enforcement agency would be on site at the soccer tournament: \u201cIf we have people coming in that\u2019s on the terrorist watchlist, we\u2019re going to collapse on them. That\u2019s not going to [just] be ICE, that could be state police that collapse on them. We\u2019re all working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, is enforcing an accreditation process that involves collecting stadium workers\u2019 personal data and sharing it with the Department of Homeland Security prior to the World Cup. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seriously concerned that FIFA will hand over our most sensitive personal information and , or lose our job working the World Cup,\u201d Yolanda Fierro, a stadium worker and union member, said in a May statement. \u201cWe cannot celebrate the World Cup while workers, tourists, immigrant families, and local communities are made to feel unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Union members also raised concerns about the enormous revenues their employer, Legends Global, a worldwide venue management company, would earn from the World Cup, including from individual luxury suite packages worth more than $100,000. According to the union, workers\u2014despite the high-pressure environment of the tournament and the immigration risks\u2014aren\u2019t seeing anything like a fair share: \u201cLegends Global\u2019s most recent proposal includes wage freezes for some suite attendants and bartenders and 25 cents-an-hour annual increases for cooks and dishwashers,\u201d the local wrote.<\/p>\n

Despite a tournament already marked by abuses of power\u2014 including the Trump administration\u2019s denial of visasto national team players, staff, and match officials\u2014roughly 2,000 food and beverage workers have scored the first goal.<\/p>

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