General Strike is Needed Response to Hotel Lockout

A citywide general strike is the best and needed response to the hotel lockout that is now being implemented by the union-busting hotel owners. The people of San Francisco support the strikers; does the San Francisco Labor Council have the will to call a general strike?

With a general strike, in one day, the greedy, filthy rich corporate hotel owners would sign a union contract. We would not have time to get some extra sleep.

These filthy rich parasites with their multiple houses, expensive gas-guzzling cars, private schools, designer clothing, yachts, jewels, furs, ad nauseum, can easily afford to pay a decent living wage and pay for ALL of the medical benefits, the medical being a complete tax writeoff anyhow. Asking people who make $8-$15 per hour to pay any medical benefit much less almost $300 per month for medical is criminal.

It should be obvious that the minimum wage needs to be $20 per hour and that we need what the rest of the industrialized world has, a national healthcare plan paid for with our tax dollars (instead of paying for the military, prisons and police), guaranteeing free medical and dental care to all who live here from cradle to grave.

The union-busting will not end with this hotel strike. Labor is only 12% organized, and the private sector is even less organized. The capitalist class would love to bust all unions as their primary goal is the same as that of this entire society: Maximization of profit.

An injury to one is an injury to all! GENERAL STRIKE NOW!