{"id":353505,"date":"2026-06-09T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353505\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:32:08","slug":"sofi-stadium-workers-reach-deal-avert-strike-during-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353505\/","title":{"rendered":"SoFi Stadium workers reach deal, avert strike during World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A strike that had the potential to disrupt the U.S. World Cup<\/a> opener at SoFi Stadium<\/a> has been averted, with United Here Local 11 and Legends Global, the stadium\u2019s food-service operator, agreeing Tuesday to a tentative deal.<\/p>\n

The nearly 2,000 workers represented by the union, which includes dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders and servers, voted last week to authorize a strike<\/a> with 96% of those voting supporting the decision to walk off the job. Workers were demanding salary increases, protection against subcontracting and job loss through automation, and were refusing to comply with FIFA\u2019s request to collect sensitive private information such as nationality and home addresses.<\/p>\n

FIFA, global soccer\u2019s governing body and the organizer of the World Cup, said it needed the information as part of its background-check procedure but the union feared the sensitive data would be shared with immigration authorities. The union says it retains the right to strike over security concerns relating to the presence of immigration officials at the stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorkers have the contractual right to walk off the job if the union determines in good faith that federal immigration enforcement threatens worker safety during a World Cup match,\u201d Local 11 posted on its social media accounts.<\/p>\n

Details of the new contract were not released, but the union had demanded \u201csubstantial increases\u201d in pay to more than $30 an hour while Legends proposed wage freezes for some workers and a 25-cent hourly increase for cooks and dishwashers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to have reached an agreement with Unite Here Local 11 and look forward to delivering an outstanding hospitality experience for fans at the FIFA World Cup matches,\u201d Legends Global said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Union members have been working without a contract for a year and Kurt Petersen, the union\u2019s co-president, said workers would have picketed the stadium ahead of Friday\u2019s tournament opener between the U.S. and Paraguay. SoFi Stadium will play host to seven other World Cup games, including the U.S. group-play final with Turkey on June 25.<\/p>\n

FIFA has declined to comment on the contract talks, saying they are \u201cbetween Legends Global and Unite Here Local 11.\u201d But its insistence on collecting personal information was a major stumbling block to a deal.<\/p>\n

FIFA said it was partnering with the governments of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the three countries in which the 39-day tournament will be played, \u201cto enhance safety and security of all workers, staff, team members, vendors, journalists, volunteers, and spectators by mitigating potential insider threats. … Such name checks do not constitute pre-employment checks.\u201d<\/p>\n

All data collected during the name-check process, FIFA said, will be processed \u201cin accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws, and will be deleted by FIFA as soon as it is no longer needed for purposes of adjudicating requests for credentialed access to FIFA-controlled spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strike that had the potential to disrupt the U.S. World Cup opener at SoFi Stadium has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[144281,144280,4017,6709,8862,45710,48,52,51,142862,69079,972,47,50,49,9726,144282,126227,2328,102348,5393],"class_list":["post-353505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-avert-strike","tag-concession-worker","tag-contract","tag-deal","tag-fifa","tag-job-loss","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-legend-global","tag-legends-global","tag-local","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-negotiation","tag-security-requirement","tag-sofi-stadium-worker","tag-union","tag-unite","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}