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Westin Workers Gain Nationwide Support

By James Parks

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Rhode Island state Rep. David Segal yesterday delivered petitions with 3,600 signatures from around the country to management at the Westin Providence in support of the 200 workers there who got the shaft during contract negotiations. The petitions urged the hotel to negotiate a fair contract with the workers, members of UNITEHERE! Local 217.

The hotel owners, the Procaccianti Group, ended bargaining talks March 14 and unilaterally imposed a 20-percent pay cut and an increase in employees’ health insurance costs.

Organizers of the annual Netroots Nation conference for progressive bloggers and online activists, which is slated for Providence in 2011, let the Westin Providence hotel know that unless management comes to an agreement with workers there, Netroots Nation will not work with the hotel in hosting the more than 2,000 participants who take part. That would mean a more than $2 million loss for the state economy, because without the Westin, Netroots Nation would move to another city for sufficient accommodations. Along with Netroots Nation, members of Democracy for America (DFA) and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) joined in supporting the petition drive.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).