Congress Strikers, Allies Target Strikebreaker Agency.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003 Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) Union Local 1 -0-
WHAT: Delegation and protest at an agency supplying replacement
workers to the Congress Hotel
WHO: Members of ACORN, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) Union Local 1
WHERE: 55 W. Monroe (corner of Monroe and Dearborn Street)
DATE: Wednesday, June 25
TIME: 12:00 noon
Faced with wage and benefit cuts, workers at the Congress Hotel have been on strike since Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. June June: see month. 15th, picketing picketing, act of patrolling a place of work affected by a strike in order to discourage its patronage, to make public the workers' grievances, and in some cases to prevent strikebreakers from taking the strikers' jobs. Picketing may be by individuals or by groups. around the clock. Rather than return to the negotiating table, Congress management has hired third party contractors to recruit replacement workers. Congress strikers will march from the Congress to 55 W. Monroe Monroe. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 54,909), seat of Ouachita parish, SE La., on the Ouachita River; founded c.1785, inc. as a city 1900. The center of the great Monroe Natural Gas Field (discovered 1915), it has important chemical plants, as well as to join their community allies from ACORN and the Coalition for the Homeless This article is about the original New York based organization. For the national organization, see National Coalition for the Homeless Coalition for the Homeless is the oldest not-for-profit advocacy group focused on homelessness in the United States. in a lively protest Wednesday at noon. Visit the website: www.congresshotelstrike.info |
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