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Speaker 1: Fenway Park concession workers ratified the new contract over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: The workers, members of Unite Local twenty five, won better wages,

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Speaker 1: staffing standards, and income guarantees.

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Speaker 2: We've reached a settlement that number one provides the largest

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Speaker 2: wage increases in the history of Fenway Park by a

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Speaker 2: significant measure that will allow our members at Fenway, we

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Speaker 2: have over a thousand members at Fenway, to be able

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Speaker 2: to live in the city and to prosper in the

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Speaker 2: city along with the team and with Aramark.

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Speaker 1: Carlos Ramile, the president of the workers' union, says, the

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Speaker 1: new contract addresses what was a difficult issue in negotiations,

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Speaker 1: vending machines that dispense food and beer directly to fans.

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Speaker 2: This settlement and this model where by which we reached

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Speaker 2: an agreement, is the model that technology needs to be

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Speaker 2: talked about in the American workplace. The tech will still

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Speaker 2: be there so that fans can get their beer a

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Speaker 2: little bit faster, but our members aren't going to bear

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Speaker 2: the cost of that.

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Speaker 1: The new contract ends a tense year of negotiations and

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Speaker 1: a strike by workers during a Red Sox homestand against

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers last season. Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio