Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Sam Adams Boston Brewery Workers Vote to Join UFCW

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

Workers at the original Sam Adams Boston Brewery location in Jamaica Plain have gone public with their intent to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 328.

Bartenders, beer ambassadors, cooks and key holders delivered a letter to management last week announcing their organizing effort. Staff cited concerns around job security, fair treatment, equality, the consistency of workplace policies, and wages and benefits.

“If you’re talking to management over and over and over again and nothing’s changing, you’ve got to try something different,” said Zafi Smith, a senior beer ambassador. “Seeing my coworkers reinvigorated by this has been incredible.”