This afternoon, a boisterous group of the 99% from Occupy Baltimore joined Center Plate workers of UNITE HERE Local 7 at the Baltimore City Center Convention Center ( Read more... )

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The boycott has been going very well. Anecdotally, I hear that occupancy is slow low that the company has turned off the lights in one of the towers.

The Baltimore City Council just voted to support the boycott.

( Full text of the City's Resolution )

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An article on crime fiction writers convention--Bouchercon--at the boycotted Sheraton Baltimore City Center is in the Jacket Copy blog of the L.A. Times. It briefly discusses the labor dispute at the hotel between UNITE HERE and Columbia Sussex. That article links to my tagged posts on the Sheraton and mentions the mystery flyer. I guess that ( Read more... )

A picket line in Crystal City northern Virginia by Hotel workers, a forum in D.C. on Abortion Rights in Ireland, and my latest brush with death (I'm saving that for last because the two events I mention first are more interesting).

( Hotel Workers Protest at boycotted Hilton Crystal City )

"Some observations from the 7/29 panel at the UNITE-HERE! building, featuring Scot Spencer (Annie E. Casey Foundation), Greg LeRoy (Good Jobs First), Worker X (anonymous hotel worker), Darlene Harrison, Union Committee Leader, and Mike Mitchell, Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity.

( John's report )

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