SoFi Stadium workers to vote on whether to authorize a strike with World Cup looming

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Approximately 2,000 hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium will begin voting Thursday over whether to authorize a strike just a week before the World Cup is scheduled to kick off at the Inglewood venue.The cooks, dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders and servers represented by Unite Here Local 11 have been working without a contract for a year and the union says negotiations with Legends Global, the stadium’s food-service operator, have stalled.Workers are demanding salary increases, protection against subcontracting and job loss through automation, and are protesting FIFA’s collection of sensitive private information such as nationality and home addresses.If a strike is approved during the two-day vote, Kurt Petersen, co-president of the union, said the 70,000 fans arriving for the June 12 World Cup opener between the U.S.

and Paraguay will be greeted by hundreds of picketing workers.“It could get ugly, yes,” he said.California The FBI’s top agent in Los Angeles warned that drone operators will be working closely with the Federal Aviation Administration to enforce temporary flight restrictions over the stadium that will host games for the U.S.

national team and Iran and related fan events.Petersen said another round of bargaining was scheduled for Wednesday but he was not hopeful a resolution would be reached.A union spokeswoman said the results of the vote could be known as early as Friday night.“I think we’ll go through the vote and hopefully we’ll meet again next week,” he said.

“We want a fair contract.But it takes two sides.”In terms of salary, Petersen said the union is looking for “substantial increases” to more than $30 an hour.

Legends’ most recent proposal calls for wage freezes for some workers and a 25-cent hourly increase for cooks and dishwashers, the union said.“The company wants to talk about quarters.We want to talk about doll...