Ten Thousand Hotel Workers On Strike During Busy Labor Day Weekend
unitehere.org
After months of unresolved negotiations, hotel workers with the UNITE HERE union walked off the job today at 24 hotels in eight cities: Boston, Greenwich, Honolulu, Kauai, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle.
  • Skeezix@lemmy.world
    102·
    3 months ago

    One of the foundational principles of capitalism is that it’s perfectly acceptable to pay wages that people can’t survive on. The company’s profits are more important than the livelihood of the workers. This is obfuscated by the term “starter jobs”

    • minibyte
      53·
      3 months ago

      One of the foundational principles of a union is that it’s perfectly acceptable to do work that the company can’t survive on. The employee’s livelihood is more important than the livelihood of the employer’s. This is clarified by the term “Fuck you, Imma get mine”.

      This is our world. Light the brazier and sharpen the guillotine!

      *brought to you by the ashes of Hostess and Yellow corp.