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Policy Order Supporting Union Recognition at Lamplighter Brewing Co., with Appreciation for the Owners’ Community Contributions

How it started
Feb 9, 2026 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern, Siddiqui, Simmons, Al-Zubi, Wheeler, and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Introduced late, under Rule 36A: added after the agenda was published, so it reached the floor only on a suspension of the rules.
What happened
Feb 9, 2026 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (Adopted as amended, unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Ayah Al-Zubi
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Tim Flaherty
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Cathie Zusy
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Feb 9, 2026 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
The document Agenda item attachment · 2 pages

Just a Start, Food for Free, On The Rise, Cambridge Women's Center, Margaret

Fuller Neighborhood House, Community Art Center, Cambridge School Volunteers, BARCC, Enroot, Youth On Fire, and their current partner, YWCA Cambridge; and The Cambridge City Council has a long history of supporting workers’ efforts to organize and form unions as a cornerstone of workplace justice and democracy; now therefore be it That the Cambridge City Council go on record expressing strong support for the employees of Lamplighter Brewing Co. and their effort to form a union; and be it further That the Cambridge City Council go on record expressing appreciation to the owners of Lamplighter Brewing Co. for the many contributions they have made to our community, and urging them to voluntarily recognize the unionization effort via card check and to bargain in good faith; and be it further That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward suitably engrossed copies of this resolution to Cayla Marvil and AC Jones, owners of Lamplighter Brewing Co., as well as Fernando Lemus, President of UFCW Local 1445.

In City Council February 9, 2026. Adopted as Amended by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Paula M. Crane

Interim City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 9, 2026