Fed up with Cuts, Workers Put Hotels on Notice: “We Won’t Sacrifice Our Health for Corporate Profit”
Unite Here Local 1:
| WHAT: | Press conference to discuss the expiration of citywide union hotel contracts (Aug. 31, 2009) and issues that have lead to the standoff between hotel companies and thousands of workers. | |
| WHO: | Members of Unite Here Local 1, working in area hotels, and Local 1 President Henry Tamarin | |
| WHERE: | In front of Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive. | |
| Press Conference will be staged near corner of Wacker and Stetson | ||
| WHEN: | Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10:00am (the day after hotel contracts expire) | |
| WHY: | Union contracts covering 6,000 workers at 30 hotels in downtown Chicago expire on Aug. 31, 2009, and a settlement between area workers and hotel employers is far from sight. | |
After years of record profitability in the hotel industry, big companies like Hyatt and Hilton are using the tough economy as an excuse to lay off workers, cut guest services, and get a smaller pool of workers to risk injury by working harder and faster.
What’s worse? History shows that hotels may refuse to bring people back to work, even as the economy rebounds. Nationwide, big hotel corporations cut staff 17% when tourism was down after 9/11—and never brought those jobs back when profits soared in the years to follow.
Now Chicago hotel workers are fighting back. Hotel workers are now calling on employers to restore jobs and join with workers to ensure that jobs in Chicago’s hospitality industry, which can’t be exported overseas, remain safe, family-sustaining jobs that can help rebuild our economy from the ground up.
Unite Here Local 1, Chicago’s hospitality workers union, represents over 15,000 hotel and food service workers in Chicago and casino workers in Northwest Indiana.
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