Chicago Hotel Workers Union -- HERE -- Begins Negotiations; Union Launches www.chicagohoteldeadline.com.Business Editors, HR-Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2002 Union negotiations covering 7,000 workers at 29 Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. hotels will begin today. The union's rank and file negotiating committee will arrive at McCormick Place McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois. at noon to present opening proposals. With wages and benefits far below other major cities, the union will propose New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of wages, which are more than double those in Chicago. The Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union's current five-year contract expires on August 31 at midnight. To keep the public informed, the union has launched a website, www.chicagohoteldeadline, which features background materials and negotiation updates. HERE Locals 1 and 450, which are jointly bargaining the contract with an association of Chicago hotels, have scheduled a strike vote for August 12. Hotel workers will vote on whether to authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) the union's negotiating committee to call a strike if necessary when the contract expires at the end of the month. |
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