The Hotel Workers Rising Campaign: A Message to the Daily Kos Community

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 9:51 AM PDT

2006/06/18 · 09:51

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. Read More

The Story Right Under the Nose of Yearly Kos

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 7:44 AM PDT

2006/06/16 · 07:44

By all accounts--even those of a sometimes befuddled MSM--Yearly Kos was a rousing success: Something's happening here, even if what it is ain't exactly clear.

But attendees who laughed about the Las Vegas ambience-cheap rooms, lots of gambing, absurd half-sized Eiffel Tower--missed the most significant thing about their host city: Las Vegas is the most powerful union city in country, and, not coincidentally, the fastest growing city in the country. Read More

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