In Berkeley, Raging Grannies went over several times. You might try to
contact them.
Avis
on 3/5/06 12:27 PM, Jim DeMaegt at jdemaegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Avis Worthington wrote: "We have been picketing for the Honda strike in
> Berkeley"
> -----------------------
> That is very good news indeed. Are there a lot of Pacifica activists on
> that picket line?
> .If you get a chance could you tell us about some of your experiences on
> the picket line?
> How were you able to get more people to to the picket line for instance. And
> were there any problems encountered on the line?
> And I am very sorry that you think that I "just talk gobblydgook". I do
> my best. Please teach me how to do better.
> The hotel picket lines have not been formed yet (although there are
> usually some local strikes around the country.) . HERE is still negotiating
> and it is also trying to build public support for when the Hilton strike
> will begin. {Probably sometime in April] You might also want to check with
> your local HERE local. What city are you in? - San Francisco?
>
>
> Jim D.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Avis Worthington" <avisworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [NewPacifica] Hilton target of strike plan
>
>
>> I keep asking you what, when, why, where so that I can forward it to the
>> head of the Gray Panthers labor committee, and you just talk gobblydgook.
>> We have been picketing for the Honda strike in Berkeley.
>>
>> Avis
>>
>>
>> on 3/5/06 5:47 AM, Jim DeMaegt at jdemaegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> How many Pacifica "activists" will be on the picket line during the
>>> coming hotel strikes?
>>> Well at least Juan Gonzalez has (or had) some connection with
>>> Pacifica.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim D.
>>> "A Day without labor Picketing is like a Day without Sunshine."
>>> -----------------------------.
>>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/396076p-335746c.html
>>> New York Daily News
>>> March 3, 2006
>>>
>>> Hilton target of strike plan
>>>
>>> By Juan Gonzalez
>>>
>>> The country's largest hotel union has targeted the
>>> Hilton Hotels Corp. for what could be the first-ever
>>> nationwide hotel strike this summer.
>>>
>>> "We've decided to isolate Hilton because they are the
>>> most recalcitrant and belligerent employer in the
>>> industry," said Peter Ward, president of the New York
>>> Hotel Trades Council.
>>>
>>> A major labor battle is not good news for this city's
>>> hotel owners, who enjoyed sky-high room prices and
>>> record occupancy rates in 2005.
>>>
>>> And it's certainly not good news for Hilton, which
>>> currently owns the two biggest hotels in town, the New
>>> York Hilton and the Waldorf-Astoria, and manages four
>>> others, the Times Square and Millenium Hiltons, the
>>> Embassy Suites and the Doubletree Guest Suites Times
>>> Square.
>>>
>>> Labor agreements with the city's 25,000 hotel workers
>>> expire July 1. But bargaining starts later this month,
>>> and Ward has already made it clear to the hotel owners
>>> association that he will insist on two separate sets of
>>> talks - one with Hilton and one with everybody else.
>>>
>>> And New York is not the only place the Hilton chain is
>>> facing the isolation treatment.
>>>
>>> Other locals of UNITE-HERE, the national hotel workers
>>> union, are pursuing the same strategy in San Francisco,
>>> Los Angeles, Honolulu, Boston, Chicago and Washington.
>>>
>>> For the first time in its history, the national union
>>> has timed its contracts so they all expire within a few
>>> months of each other, starting with Los Angeles in
>>> April.
>>>
>>> That means the union will be in a position to exert
>>> maximum pressure on the entire industry - with multiple
>>> walkouts, if necessary, leaders say - by early summer.
>>>
>>> New York is the key to the strategy because it has the
>>> biggest number of union members and the best-paid ones
>>> in the industry.
>>>
>>> Ward, meanwhile, has made meticulous preparations for
>>> what is shaping up to be mother of all hotel battles.
>>>
>>> In 2004, he persuaded his membership to overwhelmingly
>>> approve a special $10-per-week dues checkoff to create
>>> a giant strike fund. The fund has amassed $20 million
>>> and is expected to top $25 million by July.
>>>
>>> The union also has recruited major political figures
>>> like 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate and
>>> former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards to speak at
>>> hotel worker rallies around the country.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, in the campaign's war room at union
>>> headquarters in midtown, a map of Manhattan titled
>>> "2006 Strike" indicated just how far along the planning
>>> is.
>>>
>>> The map showed all city hotels divided into color-coded
>>> geographic zones with specific assignments for union
>>> organizers. Next Thursday, more than 3,000 of the
>>> union's "action team" leaders will assemble for a pre-
>>> bargaining update.
>>>
>>> Given how well the industry is doing right now, Ward
>>> sounded optimistic about reaching a deal with the main
>>> owners' association.
>>>
>>> But Hilton is a different matter.
>>>
>>> "They constantly violate our contract, so we're not
>>> going to allow them to be part of any multi-employer
>>> negotiations," Ward said.
>>>
>>> He pointed to some $2.6 million in back pay the union
>>> won in arbitration awards from Hilton hotels for more
>>> than 600 employees during the past five years because
>>> of contract violations. In one case, 45 banquet workers
>>> at the New York Hilton were awarded a total $42,000 by
>>> arbitrators because the hotel had failed to pay them
>>> their tips.
>>>
>>> A Hilton representative in New York yesterday referred
>>> all questions about the union contract to Kathy
>>> Shepard, the company's vice president for
>>> communications at its corporate headquarters in Los
>>> Angeles.
>>>
>>> Shepard did not return several phone calls seeking
>>> comment.
>>>
>>>
>>
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