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Let’s Look at the Issues

Here are Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward’s remarks welcoming union members and labor leaders who attended.

Cuomo and Casino Owner Credit HTC for Rivers Casino Opening

At the press conference, Rivers Casino owner Neil Bluhm spoke on HTC President Peter Ward’s aid in passing legislation for upstate casinos. "Without Peter’s great work we wouldn’t be here. He was very instrumental in getting the legislation enacted, welcomed us and we look forward to working with you, Peter, in the future.”

Writing Contest Awards

Awards from the 2013 writing contest were distributed last month in a ceremony attended by Peter Ward and the competition’s sponsor, Donald Rubin of the Shirley and Donald Rubin Foundation. All but one of the winners attended, as did proud parents and other family members. Here, Peter Ward congratulates the winners and expresses appreciation for the excellence of the entries they submitted.

We Built This City: Immigrant Labor & The Fight for a Democratic New York

HTC — April 12, 2013

HTC President Peter Ward joined esteemed Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny as a speaker at the March 27th St. Patricks Day Celebration banquet, hosted by NYC Department of Records and O'Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP in honor of New York's Irish Labor Force. Read Peter Ward's full speech here.

The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Brooklyn Health Center

We present the remarks of Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward, Hotel Association President Vijay Dandapani, Benefit Funds Chief Executive Officer Dr. Robert Greenspan, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.

Asbestos project forces emergency union meetings at New Yorker Hotel

March 18, 2013

The health and safety of our members is the most important issue our Union deals with," Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward told a packed arbitrator's office on March 13.

Members celebrate tentative agreement to renew IWA

Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward announced Tuesday, at a Radio City Music Hall membership meeting, that our union successfully reached an early tentative agreement with the Hotel Association Bargaining Group to renew our industry-wide union contract which was scheduled to expire this summer.

Poll’s “proposals” re Tavern contract flatly unacceptable to HTC

Peter Ward, president of the Hotel Trades Council, has called Central Park Boathouse restaurant operator Dean Poll's initial Tavern on the Green proposal "an insult, an atrocity and a slap in the face of not only this union but every New Yorker."

HTC invites DNC to choose Brooklyn!

The Democratic National Committee “DNC” announced in November that they will host the 2016 Democratic National Convention in either Brooklyn, Philadelphia, or Columbus. Delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention will select the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. HTC President Peter Ward urged the DNC to chose New York City for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. “New York City’s unionized hotel industry embodies the Party’s ideals of shared prosperity and a vibrant middle class,” Ward commented.

TWA Hotel Opens at JFK

The old TWA terminal at JFK International Airport, which sat vacant for more than 20 years, opened in May as the TWA Hotel. HTC President Peter Ward was invited for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, where he joined the hotel’s developers and elected officials in celebrating the hotel’s opening.