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Article: Congress Hotel Workers Vote to Strike.
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- Business Wire
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- May 29, 2003
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Business Editors
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2003
In the face of wage and benefit cuts, workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike today. The vote was 113 to 1. The contract expired on December 31, 2002, and a strike deadline will be set for sometime in June.
Until last September, the historic Congress Hotel had always paid wages and benefits in line with other prominent Chicago hotels. However, the Congress Hotel owners chose not to participate in last summer's citywide hotel negotiations. In those negotiations, nearly 7,000 workers in 28 Chicago hotels won a big raise, narrowly avoiding a strike when ...