Last month, when a new contractor started operating the tech giant’s dining facility, it announced it was throwing out the existing union contract and planned to negotiate a new one from scratch.
Halfway through her first term, Wu is facing criticism from several advocates on the left of Boston’s political spectrum who say she hasn’t done enough to deliver reforms on an array of issues.
In a significant change of course, the union representing hotel employees at the Sheraton Boston Hotel now supports Northeastern’s transformation of 428 hotel rooms into dorms, reversing its initial stance against the conversion. The project, which Northeastern moved to solidify in April with the Boston Planning and Development Agency, or BPDA, will convert the hotel’s.