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Dean Poll and the unions
When the Parks Department last August chose Central Park Boathouse proprietor Dean Poll to take over Tavern on the Green, the city presented Mr. Poll with a diplomatic challenge: He would have to negotiate with a large, unionized workforce to craft a labor agreement that would allow the business to move forward.
After 35 years, Tavern on the Green gets new operator
The New York City Parks Department has awarded the new operating lease for Tavern on the Green to Dean Poll, who also operates the Central Park Boathouse restaurant.
New operator of Tavern threatens two-year closing
Dean J. Poll, the future operator of Tavern on the Green, claims he may have to close the restaurant for two years if he cannot take it over on January 1, 2010, and begin renovations.
Poll’s “proposals” re Tavern contract flatly unacceptable to HTC
Peter Ward, president of the Hotel Trades Council, has called Central Park Boathouse restaurant operator Dean Poll's initial Tavern on the Green proposal "an insult, an atrocity and a slap in the face of not only this union but every New Yorker."
Tavern on the Green files for bankruptcy, assures union it will pay debt
Tavern on the Green filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 on September 9, just two weeks after losing the restaurant's operating lease to Dean Poll, operator of the Central Park Boathouse restaurant.
700 HTC members: “We’ll fight to protect our rights!”
More than 700 workers from both Tavern on the Green and union hotels rallied in Central Park September 25, sending a message to newly-designated Tavern operator Dean Poll that they would fight to protect the Tavern workers' union jobs and union contract.
Auctioning off Tavern on the Green
The auctioning off of Tavern on the Green's wares, including chandeliers, murals, animal sculptures, and rare wood paneling, is set to begin January 13. The LeRoy family's operating lease on the restaurant expires at the end of this year, and in 2010 Dean Poll, operator of the Central Park Boathouse restaurant, will take over operations.
Tavern talks resume
Can Tavern on the Green be resurrected in our lifetime? Tuesday, for the second day, the designated new operator of the landmark restaurant in Central Park, Dean J. Poll, conducted negotiations with the Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which represents some 400 employees who have been looking for work since the restaurant shuttered early on Jan. 1.
Winning the union at the Boathouse Restaurant
In a recent article, Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News reported on why Boathouse workers have been using recorders at work as protection against management's anti-union intimidation. Recorded threats, bribes, retaliatory actions, and more have provided evidence supporting the long list of unfair labor practice charges the Hotel Trades Council has filed against restaurant operator Dean Poll and his managers on behalf of the workers.
Plans and back-up plans for auctioning of Tavern’s assets
While litigation over the ownership of the Tavern on the Green name continues, plans and back-up plans for the auction of its assets, tangible and intangible, are made. At the close to 2009, the LeRoy family, who have run the restaurant since 1976, will begin vacating the space for Central Park Boathouse operator Dean Poll to take over operations.
