“It was a graveyard before the union,” Malcom McCombs said as his Senate cafeteria colleagues nodded.
McCombs was seated in a corner of the cafeteria in the Dirksen Building basement with four other members of Unite Here Local 23, talking about what’s changed since his workplace organized and reached a collective bargaining agreement last year.
“Now it’s fun to come to work,” said McCombs. “People are smiling.”
