Victory! - IWW Helps Landmark Cinemas Corporation Discover Cash
Submitted on Sat, 08/05/2006 - 2:16pm
Workers at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley and all Landmark Cinema employees nation wide are about to receive a pay increse. At Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley the starting wage goes up to $8 per hour from $7.25. That's if the workers choose to accept it. Landmark attorney Tom Pavone sent a letter announcing the pay raises to the IWW along with spread sheet data showing the increase for each worker.
The IWW-Shattuckunion considers this to be a clear demonstration of union power and will continue to press the company for gains in benefits and improvments in working conditions. The IWW in the Bay Area along with union workers at Kendall Square cinema in Cambridge Mass., are the first two Landmark Cinemas to go union. There are approximately 60 Landmark theaters in total.
IWW-Shattuckunion will hold a rally in front of the Shattuck Cinema on September 1st at 6:30 pm.