City Council Finance Committee to Hear ''Right to Know'' Strike Notification Ordinance; Chicago Visitors & Consumer Advocates Will Testify for New Law.CHICAGO -- UNITE HERE UNITE HERE is a labor union with more than 450,000 active members in the United States and Canada, predominantly in the hotel, food service, apparel and textile manufacturing, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries. Local 1: What: Press Conference announcing "Right to Know" ordinance ----- Who: Hotel Customers, Community Leaders, Hotel Workers ---- When: Friday, June 3 at 9:30 a.m. (Committee meeting at 10 a.m.) ----- Where: Outside Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall ------ Today the City Council Committee on Finance will hear testimony in support of the proposed "Right to Know" consumer protection ordinance. The ordinance would protect Chicago visitors by requiring hotels to notify customers of a prolonged strike or lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout of workers before making reservations. Hotel customers, community leaders and hotel workers will testify in support of the ordinance. "Chicago is a world-class tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". , and visitors expect a safe and comfortable stay," said Henry Tamarin tamarin: see marmoset. tamarin Any of about 25 species of long-tusked marmosets in the genera Leontopithecus (or Leontideus, according to some authorities) and Saguinus. Tamarins are 8–12 in. , President of the UNITE HERE Local 1, Chicago's 14,000-member hospitality workers' union The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1929. See also
The need for consumer protection is highlighted by the ongoing dispute at 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. on Michigan Avenue, where workers have been on strike since June 2003. Many Congress customers report that they were not informed of the strike and would not have knowingly booked at a struck hotel. Hundreds of visitors have complained of unsafe and unsanitary un·san·i·tar·y adj. Not sanitary. conditions at the hotel, including undercooked food, dirty linens, broken elevators and torn carpets. "We arrived in Chicago to find a picket line at the front door of the Congress Hotel, and every room in the city sold out," said Amy Guymer of Lansing, Michigan, who visited Chicago in March and will testify at the hearing. "We had no place else to go but a struck hotel with a horrible conditions. We should have been told the truth." |
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