NoVA Hotel Workers Rally Today
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The fireworks will be in Northern Virginia today at 4:30P when hundreds will
rally to demand a fair contract for Crystal City Hilton hotel workers. The
workers have been without a contract since October 2007 (VA Hotel
Workers Demand Contract 11/5/07 UC). Management “wants to eliminate
pensions, increase healthcare costs and workloads” and has “threatened
workers’ job security at our area’s first union hotel,” reports the
Northern Virginia Central Labor Council. Workers have also called for a boycott
of the hotel.