Hotel Workers Dial for Jobs

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Hotel Workers Dial for Jobs(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

With 12,000 jobs at stake, including hospitality industry jobs, Unite Here Local 25 has mounted an impressive phone banking effort supporting Question 7, the gaming referendum in Maryland. Local 25 members made 139,493 calls to registered voters in Maryland, reports Local 25 Political Director Abiola Afolayan. While the phonebank’s goal was 10,000 contacts, Afolayan reports that as of today, 22,209 actual contacts with voters had been made. - photo: Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker visits Local 25’s phonebanking operation at the Gaylord National; photo by Abiola Afolayan

 

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