[Linganth] Fwd: action site to express opinion to hotels

[P. Kerim Friedman]

Begin forwarded message:

Special: Take action!

S.F. HOTELS, STOP LOCKING OUT YOUR EMPLOYEES

A number of international hotel chains, including the Hyatt, Hilton,
and Holiday Inn groups, have radically escalated a bargaining impasse
in San Francisco by locking out 4,000 unionized hotel workers. Most of
the locked out workers are relatively low wage people of color, and the
lock out is imposing severe financial stress. The hotels are taking a
very hard line, refusing mediation by the mayor and refusing to even
appear before the county board of supervisors. The mayor is so
concerned that he has announced he is going to start picketing the
hotels himself! The primary issues in the impasse are health care
benefits, wages, and the length of a contract.

In recent decades, many of the hotels locking out their workers have
become part of international chains, so that decisions about working
conditions in San Francisco are now made by CEOs in far off distant
cities. The chains are able to use the continuing revenues of their
other hotels to offset any losses in San Francisco, while the low wage
workers being locked out have no where to turn.

Locking out workers is a cowardly way to resolve differences. The hotel
CEOs should immediately cease their lockout and resolve their
differences at the bargaining table.

Call on the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group, the group of 14 hotels
currently running the lockout, to end their lock out and agree to the
proposed 90-day cooling off period so they can get back to bargaining
in good faith with their employees:

Click here to take action!
<http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=17979>