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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Many people who have eaten in the MIT dining halls will recognize Mark, a Bon Appetit employee in the undergraduate dorms. Besides ensuring students stay well-fed and offering students daily smiles, Mark is
also the Chief Shop Steward of the dining hall workers' union, UNITE HERE Local 26. This means he represents and defends other dining workers in interactions with Bon Appetit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">After 13 years of working for Bon Appetit, Mark has received a flagrantly unjust final warning from the company as punishment after speaking up on behalf of a co-worker and completing the duties of his position.
This is an apparent effort to silence him and others from speaking up on workplace issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Join the Student-Worker Alliance and coalition partners for a zoom rally on Monday, February 22nd @ 6pm EST to hear directly from Mark and other Bon Appetit dining workers about unfair treatment and racism
at the workplace, and how we can all come together to fight for a just and equitable MIT! <b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mit-dining-blm" target="_blank">RSVP here</a>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">GSC DEI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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