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Winning the union at the Boathouse Restaurant
In a recent article, Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News reported on why Boathouse workers have been using recorders at work as protection against management's anti-union intimidation. Recorded threats, bribes, retaliatory actions, and more have provided evidence supporting the long list of unfair labor practice charges the Hotel Trades Council has filed against restaurant operator Dean Poll and his managers on behalf of the workers.
New hotel for West 37th Street parking lot site
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, a 300-room hotel will be going up on West 37th Street in midtown Manhattan. The site to be developed, a parking lot, is between 8th and 9th Avenues. The article described the current New York City hotel market as being "particularly alluring for developers" since tourism, business travel, and hotel room rates have all been on the rise.
Crystal Lee Sutton, union organizer who inspired Oscar-winning film Norma Rae, dies at 68
Crystal Lee Sutton, a fierce union activist and defender of working people whose own story inspired the Oscar award-winning film Norma Rae died September 11 at age 68 from brain cancer.
On the Ballot: The Survival of the American Labor Movement
October 27, 2020 10:59 AM
Many Americans understand that a vote for the President is, in effect, a vote on the future of the U.S. Supreme Court, whose rulings will affect our civil liberties and rights for years to come. But Supreme Court Justices are not the only presidential appointees that have significant power over the lives of the American people. A group of lesser known presidential appointees that are effectively “on the ballot” each election are those to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). These appointees are responsible for protecting the rights of American workers to organize, join a union, and collectively bargain over their wages, benefits, and working conditions.
As working people cast their ballots this election, they will be voting on the very survival of the American labor movement.
NLRB prepared to sue to protect key provision of NLRA
In a January 14, 2011, press release, the National Labor Relations Board announced it is prepared to bring suit to invalidate amendments in four state constitutions that abrogate a key portion of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board has concluded these amendments restrict the rights available to workers and employers under Section 7 of the NLRA, and are thus violative of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and cannot legally be applied or enforced.
New Union Leaders
MARIE RICHARD - Local 6 Vice President
Marie was recruited as a Business Agent upon her return to New York City, and she has spent the last 20 years defending the contractual rights of thousands of HTC members Read more...
“UNION YES!” at the Park South Hotel – HTC Wins with 88% of the Vote
On July 23, 2015, Housekeeping, Bell/Door, Front Desk, and Engineering workers at the Park South Hotel (on Park Avenue South and 28th Street) voted 38-5 to be represented by the Hotel Trades Council in a union authorization election conducted by the U.S. Government.
