The Wharton School of Business vs. SF Hotel Workers
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Wharton San Francisco also frequently breaks the worker-called boycott of the HEI Le Meridien hotel, where they regularly book large blocks of rooms for their budding executives. Just over a year ago, a brave and determined group of workers at the luxury hotel launched an organizing campaign, seeking a fair process... |
Organizing Apprenticeship With Local 2!
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Local 2 is currently seeking enthusiastic activists to get involved with our important local organizing campaigns. Training will be provided by the Boycott Apprenticeship Program. Qualified applicants will help to coordinate and execute creative actions, rallies and picket lines. |
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Pass Resolution to Endorse and Honor Worker Called Boycotts!
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On April 14, 2009 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution urging management at the Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf and HEI Le Meridien hotel to allow its workers to choose, free from delay and intimidation, whether to have a union through card-check neutrality agreement. |
Workers at Two San Francisco Hotels Call For Boycott!
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(February 24, 2009, San Francisco, CA) – Hundreds of hotel workers and community members marched through downtown San Francisco to call on visitors to boycott two major hotels: the HEI Le Meridien and the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf. |
Jonathan Palewicz, Union Activist, Dies at 59.
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Jonathan L. Palewicz, an influential San Francisco rank-and-file union member who attacked union corruption at congressional hearings and doggedly worked to expand worker rights, died March 11 at UCSF hospital at age 59. He was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2004. Mr. Palewicz was a longtime member of Local 2 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, now known as Unite Here, and was also affiliated with Local 856 of the Brotherhood of Teamsters. |
