ADVISORY/Chicago City Council Finance Committee Plans Hearing on the Congress Hotel.Business Editors ADVISORY... for Tuesday (Nov. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Chicago City Council The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of fifty aldermen elected from fifty wards to serve four-year terms. Finance Committee Plans Hearing on the Congress Hotel
WHAT: City Council Finance Committee Hearing
WHO: Alderman Edward Burke, Chair; Congress Hotel customers;
investigators; academic experts; community leaders; and striking
workers
WHERE: City Council Chambers, City Hall - 121 N. LaSalle St.
DATE: Tuesday, November 18
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
Responding to scores of complaints from customers and the Chicago community, a resolution was introduced on Wednesday calling for a hearing on the Congress Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. . The hearing will be held on Tuesday, November 18th at 10:00 a.m. in the City Council Finance Committee, chaired by Alderman ALDERMAN. An officer, generally appointed or elected in towns corporate, or cities, possessing various powers in different places. 2. The aldermen of the cities of Pennsylvania, possess all the powers and jurisdictions civil and criminal of justices of the Edward Burke. Congress Hotel workers have been on strike since June 15, after hotel management unilaterally cut wages and benefits. The National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right has charged the Congress Hotel with committing numerous unfair labor practices Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. , including failing to bargain in good faith and illegally implementing wage cuts. The Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 1, is organizing testimony at the upcoming Finance Committee hearing on the Congress Hotel. Witnesses will include customers, experts and community leaders, who will testify that the Congress hotel is hurting Chicago's image as a desirable hospitality destination. The witnesses will call for increased enforcement of all city health, building, sanitation sanitation: see plumbing; sanitary science. and fire codes. |
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