“Nowadays, it’s affecting everybody. The price of everything is going up: gas, food, chicken wings,” George Hancock, a lead concessions worker at Oriole Park in Baltimore, said. “When you’re not working and it adds up, it’s more on your chest.”
The Boston Red Sox grounds crew works on the Opening Day stencil at Fenway Park in Boston on March 30, 2021.The first two series of this year’s Major League Baseball season were canceled Tuesday after MLB and the players union failed to strike up a new labor deal to end a lockout that has stretched into its third month.
“Nowadays, it’s affecting everybody. The price of everything is going up: gas, food, chicken wings. It’s the everyday needs you see it pop up: an extra 50 cents, an extra dollar, extra 75 cents,” he said.Michael Cobb, a forklift operator who has worked at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., since it opened in 2008, said the league’s announcement Tuesday was “a setback.
“Opening Day is huge for a concessions worker, economically and socially. You haven’t seen all of your co-workers for six months. You catch up,” she said. “It’s not just a job.”
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