NoVA Hotel Workers Rally Today

(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.