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SF Labor Day 2004: Thousands Picket Hotels; Many Arrested for a Union Contract
Thousands of hotel workers, Local 2, turned out in San Francisco in the searing heat to demand the big hotels sign a union contract. About a hundred were arrested for sitting on the cable car tracks in front of the St. Francis Hotel.
Thousands of hotel workers, Local 2, turned out in San Francisco in the searing heat to demand the big hotels sign a union contract. About a hundred were arrested for sitting on the cable car tracks in front of the St. Francis Hotel.
The hotel workers' contract expires September 14 at most of the big hotels, with other hotel contacts expiring soon thereafter . The big hotels are Argent Hotel, Crowne Plaza Union Square, Fairmont San Francisco, Four Seasons San Francisco, Grand Hyatt, Hilton San Francisco, Holiday Inn Civic Center, Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental, Omni San Francisco Hotel, Sheraton Palace Hotel and Westin St. Francis. Not all hotels are union; that must change.
It was inspiring to finally see a Labor Day labor action in San Francisco, involving thousands of workers of all colors and ages. The dispute involves elimination of healthcare benefits for workers and their families, lack of decent wage increases, and poor working conditions. The union has agreed to concessions in past contracts that now makes it possible for these swanky Class A hotels to make a profit with 47% occupancy. Since San Francisco is everybody's favorite city all year round, the occupancy is over 60%, and in peak periods, much higher. The tourist industry is vital to San Francisco's economy, and the beneficiaries of this crucial industry must be labor, for it is labor that makes possible the tourist industry.
Local 2 is the combined Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HERE) and Union of Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees (UNITE) in San Francisco. It represents about 8,000 workers at the hotels where the contracts will soon expire. The strike vote will take September 14, 2004.
It was very inspiring to see ordinary people collectively act to advance their and our needs as workers. The need for a labor movement is crucial if we are to advance in this country and stop fascism. Hopefully, if a strike vote is taken, they will take seriously the slogan, "No contract, no work," and shut down all the hotels, uinon and non-union, and all other workers should honor the picketlines, as picketlines mean don't cross. It is long overdue that all private profit businesses be organized. There has been far too little labor organizing, which is why the employers think they can get away with these constant attacks on labor. It is time for a serious fightback.
The hotel workers' contract expires September 14 at most of the big hotels, with other hotel contacts expiring soon thereafter . The big hotels are Argent Hotel, Crowne Plaza Union Square, Fairmont San Francisco, Four Seasons San Francisco, Grand Hyatt, Hilton San Francisco, Holiday Inn Civic Center, Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental, Omni San Francisco Hotel, Sheraton Palace Hotel and Westin St. Francis. Not all hotels are union; that must change.
It was inspiring to finally see a Labor Day labor action in San Francisco, involving thousands of workers of all colors and ages. The dispute involves elimination of healthcare benefits for workers and their families, lack of decent wage increases, and poor working conditions. The union has agreed to concessions in past contracts that now makes it possible for these swanky Class A hotels to make a profit with 47% occupancy. Since San Francisco is everybody's favorite city all year round, the occupancy is over 60%, and in peak periods, much higher. The tourist industry is vital to San Francisco's economy, and the beneficiaries of this crucial industry must be labor, for it is labor that makes possible the tourist industry.
Local 2 is the combined Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HERE) and Union of Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees (UNITE) in San Francisco. It represents about 8,000 workers at the hotels where the contracts will soon expire. The strike vote will take September 14, 2004.
It was very inspiring to see ordinary people collectively act to advance their and our needs as workers. The need for a labor movement is crucial if we are to advance in this country and stop fascism. Hopefully, if a strike vote is taken, they will take seriously the slogan, "No contract, no work," and shut down all the hotels, uinon and non-union, and all other workers should honor the picketlines, as picketlines mean don't cross. It is long overdue that all private profit businesses be organized. There has been far too little labor organizing, which is why the employers think they can get away with these constant attacks on labor. It is time for a serious fightback.
For more information:
http://www.unitehere2.org/
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Every employee deserves a union if the organization votes it in, however, the federal government has one union, a big mafia, under the 29 Agency National Treasury Employees Union.
Money Laundering, Murder, Coup D'etat Politicians, all under the umbrella of the Federal Government and their mafia associates behind the National Treasury Employees Union.
One agency per union or continue to watch our lives continue to slide into the grip of the non-empathetic, criminal, and ignorant, while money never even makes it through governmental channels.
Demand our rights under the Geneva Convention. No forced injections or experiments when in government custody. Read of horror of investigating criminals in government and have free music, art, comedy, science and discussions of transgenics as it relates to our world.
Something is amiss the USA. We can not vote, we run for our lives, our leaders kill at will, and our leaders are there by coup d-etat. Clear my gator-radar but I think I smell primitive beasts in my cess pool.
In the pic is a Sheriff who is a proven thief and remains in office due to coup d'etat and outright bullying by our fascist enemies in Alabama who behave like animal care-takers at a zoo toward area residents instead of acting like honest honorable men.
Introducing, Sheriff Jack Tillman, aka Jack Snatch $106,500 plus. What makes it worse is that his female relative was caught stealing $6,500 in the Sheriff's office. She said on the witness stand that Jack Tillman gave her the OK. Jack had stolen $100,000 from an account and was caught. The man is too cowardly to take responsibility for allowing something of that nature to happen and let the woman do time. The judge threw the original hearing out because the judge was in Jack Tillman's pocket and vice versa.
Know your enemy. Know that for everyone there is a rose petal side and a rosewood thorn side.
Money Laundering, Murder, Coup D'etat Politicians, all under the umbrella of the Federal Government and their mafia associates behind the National Treasury Employees Union.
One agency per union or continue to watch our lives continue to slide into the grip of the non-empathetic, criminal, and ignorant, while money never even makes it through governmental channels.
Demand our rights under the Geneva Convention. No forced injections or experiments when in government custody. Read of horror of investigating criminals in government and have free music, art, comedy, science and discussions of transgenics as it relates to our world.
Something is amiss the USA. We can not vote, we run for our lives, our leaders kill at will, and our leaders are there by coup d-etat. Clear my gator-radar but I think I smell primitive beasts in my cess pool.
In the pic is a Sheriff who is a proven thief and remains in office due to coup d'etat and outright bullying by our fascist enemies in Alabama who behave like animal care-takers at a zoo toward area residents instead of acting like honest honorable men.
Introducing, Sheriff Jack Tillman, aka Jack Snatch $106,500 plus. What makes it worse is that his female relative was caught stealing $6,500 in the Sheriff's office. She said on the witness stand that Jack Tillman gave her the OK. Jack had stolen $100,000 from an account and was caught. The man is too cowardly to take responsibility for allowing something of that nature to happen and let the woman do time. The judge threw the original hearing out because the judge was in Jack Tillman's pocket and vice versa.
Know your enemy. Know that for everyone there is a rose petal side and a rosewood thorn side.
For more information:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyor...
these are wonderful jobs that are up for grabbs maybe part time could be full / we will see how the strike goes.
this is a golden chance to trade up in jobe to see what the upper half live like. It's great common out and apply!
this is a golden chance to trade up in jobe to see what the upper half live like. It's great common out and apply!
"this is a golden chance to trade up in jobe to see what the upper half live like"
yea, an in addition to learning how the upper half live (the upper half of what?), you just might get your ass kicked real hard.
yea, an in addition to learning how the upper half live (the upper half of what?), you just might get your ass kicked real hard.
"just might get your ass kicked real hard"
the working poor have always been treated likt this, there is a price to be paid for each advancement in working conditions
and fighting their way to a better job, this would not be the first time.
we are ready and willing to work in place of those who will not.
the working poor have always been treated likt this, there is a price to be paid for each advancement in working conditions
and fighting their way to a better job, this would not be the first time.
we are ready and willing to work in place of those who will not.
to make other workers and their families suffer. If you think management will treat you any better, you have a big surprise in store. Don't be a scab. There are better ways to make a living. Screwing over other workers and sucking up to management will cost you in the long run.
if you worked more and played less on computer you might not have been locked out.
but that is not my problem. I am here to work and if I can make more working your job then good for me. that's the way it goes. may-be you come back may-be not! I may be here for
quite a while
but that is not my problem. I am here to work and if I can make more working your job then good for me. that's the way it goes. may-be you come back may-be not! I may be here for
quite a while
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