Hotel Workers, Trumka (President of AFL-CIO) Arrested at Sit-In for Fair Contract

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO News Blog

by Mike Hall,

More than 100 union members, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and UNITEHERE! President John Wilhelm were arrested at a sit-in demanding justice and a fair contract for San Francisco hotel workers last night. The workers have been without a contract since August.

The sit-in in front of the Hilton San Francisco followed a march by nearly 1,000 members of UNITEHERE! Local 2, other union members and community and political supporters. Says Ingrid Carp, a cook for 29 years at the Hilton:

“We’re determined as ever to win a good contract. It’s wrong for corporations to position themselves to make billions with the coming economic recovery, and expect us to go backward.”


UNITEHERE! President John Wilhelm (left) and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka were among the 140 arrested at a San Francisco hotel sit-in for justice.

The action is part of a campaign to win fair contracts at several national hotel chains, including Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood. The profitable chains are using the recession as an excuse to demand health care benefit cuts in contract talks with more than 16,000 workers at dozens of hotels in San Francisco, Chicago and other cities.



Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/06/hotel-workers-trumka-arrested-at-sit-in-for-fair-contract/

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[Doctor_J]

1. So you can wave a gun at a presidential appearance, but not

sit peacefully at a labor rally?

Is it fascism yet?

[Scruffy1]

2. It has been for a long time

[Jim Sagle]

3. Of course not.