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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
UNITE HERE!
Support Laz parking workers who are organizing a union. Join a rally with DC's Parking and Service Workers Union Local 27 on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 a.m., at the Crown Plaza Hotel (14th and K Streets NW). For more information, send an e-mail.
And check out the homepage of UNITE HERE, whose lead story -- "Hotel Fight Heats Up in DC!" -- covers the threat to go on strike at 14 District hotels in the next few days, forcing Inauguration attendees to "carry their own luggage, make their own beds, and give up luxuries like room service and clean towels," says Kimberly Murray, a housekeeper at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill.
The hotel workers have been working without a contract for nearly four months while management has tried to hardball them into a two-tier health care system and an inadequate pension plan. The DC-area hotels under strike watch are: Best Western Capitol Skyline, Capital Hilton , Embassy Row Hilton, Holiday Inn Downtown , Holiday Inn on the Hill , Hotel Washington, Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, Jefferson Hotel, Loews L'Enfant Plaza, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington Hilton and Towers and the Westin Fairfax. Workers at these hotels have voted overwhelmingly to call a strike if necessary.
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