The other day in The Story Right Under the Nose of Yearly Kos, I wrote to you about Las Vegas, the host city for yearly Kos--which also happens to be the home of the most powerful urban union movement in the country, one that has provided a middle class life to thousands of service workers and fueled economic expansion in the fastest growing city in the United States.
Today, I want to call the attention of the Daily Kos community to the most important labor fight occurring in North America this year: Hotel Workers Rising (HWR), http://www.hotelworkersrising.org/, the struggle of 60,000 hotel workers vs. multi-national giants like Hilton in cities from Toronto to Honolulu to New York. These worker's fight is to improve the safety and health conditions, living standards, and respect they receive at their jobs.
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