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Article: Unite Here: Workers Vote to Authorize a Strike at 5 Area Hotels.
- Article from:
- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Today, workers at five area hotels, including the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Westin Michigan Avenue, W Lakeshore, W Chicago-City Center, and Tremont Hotel, voted to authorize a strike by an 89% majority, in a major escalation of a citywide labor dispute among Chicago's downtown hotels. The vote authorizes the rank-and-file bargaining committee to call a strike or boycott, if necessary.
Union contracts covering 6,000 workers at 30 hotels in downtown Chicago expired on Aug. 31, 2009, and a settlement between area workers and hotel employers is far from sight. Worker frustration at area hotels has mounted as major employers like the Hilton, Hyatt, and ...