Check It Out Before You Check In
Thursday, September 15, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Hotel workers across the
country are now actively organizing against oppressive employer policies.
Many of these workers are housekeepers who face an unrealistic increase on the
number of rooms they must clean per day. Imagine if you had to clean 15 rooms
per day, including lifting heavy mattresses to change sheets, bending and
kneeling to clean bathrooms and lugging industrial-size vacuums around. Click here
to see which hotels are on the AFL-CIO boycott list; check them out so you know
where not to check in. Click
here for metro-area union hotels.
- courtesy
UFCW 400 Weekly