[CIMC-work] Press Release: Labor Day CD at Congress Hotel
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NEWS ADVISORY
August 27, 2003
For Immediate Release
Congress Strikers Plan Historic
Civil Disobedience Action for Labor Day
WHAT: Non-violent civil disobedience action at the Congress Hotel
WHO: Studs Terkel; Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon; HERE
Local 1 President Henry Tamarin; SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff; UNITE
Vice-President Lynn Talbot; Congress strikers
WHERE: Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan Ave.
DATE: Monday, September 1
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
In what may be the first civil disobedience action by organized labor in
Chicago since the 1930s, Chicago labor leaders are planning a civil
disobedience protest at the Congress Hotel for Labor Day. Strikers, other
union members, prominent labor leaders will sit down in front of the
Congress Hotel to highlight the struggle of the Congress strikers for
justice. Studs Terkel, the eminent Chicago author and historian, will be
present and offer remarks setting the historical context for the event.
In the first hotel strike in Chicago history, Congress Hotel workers walked
out on June 15 after management implemented a final contract offer that
includes a 7% wage cut, unlimited right to subcontract and no raise for four
years.
This weekends civil disobedience action marks the one-year anniversary of
the historic contract settlement that gave workers at Chicagos other union
hotels a 54% increase in wages and benefits over the life of the contract.
While housekeepers in most Chicago hotels now earn $10.00 per hour, the
Congress Hotel cut workers wages to $8.21.
Contact: Clare Fauke, 312-663-4373 x247; or cell 312-802-2302, or
Jo Marie Agriesti, 312-663-4373 x240; or cell 312-656-4633
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) Local 1
Visit the website: www.congresshotelstrike.info
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Lars Negstad
HERE Local 1
55 W. Van Buren
Chicago IL 60605
Tel. 312-663-4373, ext. 243
Fax 312-986-3828
www.congresshotelstrike.info
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