{"id":11658,"date":"2025-07-24T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-food-service-workers-democrats-stage-boycott-in-fight-to-keep-union-jobs-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:21:36","slug":"house-food-service-workers-democrats-stage-boycott-in-fight-to-keep-union-jobs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-food-service-workers-democrats-stage-boycott-in-fight-to-keep-union-jobs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House food service workers, Democrats stage boycott in fight to keep union jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House food service workers, with support from Democratic lawmakers, called for a boycott of some Capitol complex restaurants Thursday &mdash; demanding that incoming dining subcontractors maintain the previous union-negotiated base pay and benefits. Congressional Labor Caucus co-chairs Reps. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) joined food service employees in front of the Capitol building after final votes Thursday to protest the new vendors&rsquo; delay in recognizing the Unite Here Local 23 bargaining unit&rsquo;s existing agreement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/23\/congress\/house-capitol-food-service-workers-boycott-union-democrats-00470831\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House food service workers, with support from Democratic lawmakers, called for a boycott of some Capitol complex restaurants Thursday &mdash; demanding that incoming dining subcontractors maintain the previous union-negotiated base pay and benefits. Congressional Labor Caucus co-chairs Reps. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) joined food service employees in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}