After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.
Vereen was one of more than 30 members and allies of hospitality workers union Unite Here Local 217 who showed up to protest outside of 54 Meadow St., the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrative headquarters, on Thursday afternoon.
For an hour in 32-degree weather, which “felt like” 12 degrees thanks to strong winds, the group chanted phrases like “No contract, no peace!” At several moments, heavy winds blew picket signs and drums across the sidewalk, but the members didn’t budge…