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Fenway Park Concession Workers Strike Over Pay and Automation

More than 1,000 part-time staff walked off after Aramark missed a July 25 deadline.

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Concession workers outside Fenway Park ahead of a Red Sox baseball game in Boston, on Friday, July 25, 2025.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - JUNE 29:A beer vendor walks through the stands during a game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox on June 29, 2025 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
Aramark employees and members of UNITE HERE Local 26 at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall assemble picket signs on Ipswich Street in Boston on Wednesday. (Mark Stockwell/Boston Herald)

Overview

  • UNITE HERE Local 26 members began picketing at noon Friday during the Red Sox–Dodgers series after six months of stalled contract talks with Aramark.
  • The union set a 48-hour ultimatum demanding higher wages, seniority-based scheduling, improved gratuities and guardrails on AI-powered self-service kiosks.
  • Striking workers have called on fans to boycott in-park food and drink purchases for the duration of the weekend homestand.
  • Aramark has activated contingency staffing plans to maintain concessions service while negotiations continue.
  • This is the first labor strike in Fenway Park’s 113-year history and follows a successful hospitality workers’ action at other Aramark venues last year.