“No Worker Should Have to Continue Living Like This”- MLB All-Star Game Faces Peril as Dodgers Stadium Staff Threaten Outright Strike ‘At Any Moment’

Seems like the 2022 MLB All-Star games are in danger. Yes! The much-awaited MLB All-Star game is in trouble after the Dodger Stadium staff threatened a strike during the All-Star game.

If this strike takes place in Dodger Stadium, it will heavily affect the ongoing MLB season. Because Major League Baseball has already suffered enough when the owners had imposed a lockout prior to the 2022 MLB season. 

Earlier, the MLB lockout was about the players not getting their deserving payrolls. And now, following the path of MLB players, Dodger Stadium staff are planning to halt the MLB All-Star game this season. And now, their voice has become even stronger after getting backed by the MLB Players Association.

Dodger Stadium workers want a new contract amidst MLB All-Star Game

The MLB All-Star game is in less than a week. And for the first time in the last 42 years, Dodger Stadium will host the All-Star game. However, the Dodger Stadium workers’ union has different plans for the All-Star games.

Per UNITE HERE Local 11—an organization that represents over 32.000 hospitality workers —, the Dodger Stadium workers are demanding a fair new union contract.

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Taking to Twitter, UNITE HERE Local 11 shared a statement. In the statement, they demanded a new union contract after the SoFi Stadium workers got a new contract recently. The workers threatened they can call a strike at any moment.

“Compass Group is the sixth largest company in the world. It’s subsidiary, Levy Restaurants, employs nearly 1,500 servers, bartenders, suite attendants, cooks, and dishwashers at Dodger Stadium, and overwhelming majority of whom are workers of color. These workers are seeking to negotiate a fair new union contract,” the statement read.

MLB Players Association extends their support to the Dodger Stadium workers

Meanwhile, the MLB Players Association has also extended its support to the Dodger Stadium staff. The MLBPA said they are with the Dodger Stadium workers in this situation.

“The MLBPA stands in solidarity with Dodger stadium concession workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 11… They deserve to be treated fairly and will continue to have the 1,200 members of the MLBPA behind them,” MLBPA said in their statement.

Now, with MLBPA openly supporting the stadium staff, do you think the All-Star game will take place on the scheduled date?