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DESCRIPTION:Queer Community Briefing on Workers' Right to Organize\n\nPride at Work is 
 hosting a very important briefing about ongoing organizing drives at Le 
 Meridien Hotel, the Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf Hotel, and Alcatraz/Hornblower 
 Cruises. We are also very pleased to welcome Cleve Jones, gay and AIDS 
 rights activist and founder of the AIDS memorial quilt to speak about the 
 history of LGBTQ labor alliances. \n \nThe San Francisco/Bay Area has a 
 long history of solidarity between worker and queer struggles, and we think 
 it is important to continue this tradition by supporting these two very 
 important organizing campaigns. \n \nTuesday, September 23, 2008\nTime: 
 6:00pm - 7:30pm\nLocation: The LGBT Center\nStreet: 1800 Market \n \nThe 
 workers at Le Meridien Hotel and the Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf Hotel have 
 been organizing with UNITE-HERE Local 2 and are being denied a fair, 
 expedient process to have an option to form a union. Workers at 
 Alcatraz/Hornblower Cruises have been organizing with the Inlandboatman's 
 Union/ILWU and are being met with extreme intimidation, harassment and 
 unfair firings from management. Both organizing campaigns are in a critical 
 stage and are calling for support from the queer community.\n \nBoth The 
 Hyatt Corporation and Hornblower Cruises and Events market themselves to 
 the LGBTQ community as queer friendly businesses and are capitalizing on 
 the recent gay marriage victory to draw customers. Yet, while happy gay 
 newlyweds flock to their hotels and cruises, the workers pouring their 
 drinks and crewing their boats are being denied a fair process to form a 
 union. The queer community has already launched a boycott against the 
 Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego because their owner was found giving 
 $125,000 to a political committee supporting the Yes on 8 campaign. We 
 think it is important, as progressive queers, to send a strong message that 
 you're not gay friendly if you're not worker friendly.\n \nThe purpose of 
 this meeting on the 23rd is to bring together people from the queer and 
 labor communities to brainstorm ways to work together to win these 
 campaigns and strengthen relationships between our movements.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/17/18539351.php
SUMMARY:Queer Community Briefing on Workers' Right to Organize
LOCATION:Location: The LGBT Center\nStreet: 1800 Market 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/17/18539351.php
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