UNITE HERE Local 2 Prepares for Contract Fight

by Carl Finamore via Beyond Chron

Fri, Jul 31, 2009 6:43AM

Friday, July 31, 2009 : I parked a few blocks away and was on the lookout for hotel workers to lead my way to UNITE-HERE Local 2’s July 23 contract convention in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Since 1986, the union has successfully used these massively attended conventions to mobilize its membership on the eve of contract fights.

I knew this was not going to be a normal union convention, that it was something different. But I got even more. I got insight into how a union has been able to successfully mobilize and involve a widely diversified membership, including thousands of immigrants, over a 25-year period.

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