Another Worker Fired at Insomnia Cookies in Unionization Effort, Boston Location Picketed

Cambridge, Mass. - Months after it began, workers at Insomnia Cookies are continuing their pickets of the company popular amongst students for what they say is retaliation by management.

A strike by workers took place on August 18th at the company’s Harvard location demanding improvements in pay, benefits, and conditions, and the right to form a union. Four striking workers were fired two days later, and they subsequently became members of the Industrial Workers of the World union, the IWW. Around 20 members and supporters of the IWW and Boston University’s Student Labor Action Project protested outside Insomnia’s location on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Thursday night, in support of a fifth fired worker. Tommy Mendes worked as a baker at the Insomnia in Harvard and was let go for what management claim was his role in a short count on his cash register. This is something he strongly denies, instead claiming it was retaliation for his membership of the IWW.