Hotel Workers Picket Hay-Adams for Contract

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Patrons of the posh Hay-Adams hotel were confronted last night with a militant picket-line by hotel workers fed up with working for over a year without a new contract. The picketers, members of Unite Here Local 25, work in hotels across the District under a contract that expired in September 2010. The picketing workers came together from hotels across DC “because they know it’s a city-wide issue,” said Unite Here organizer Jayson Harrison. “It’s time for us to get this settled.” - report by Julia Kann; photo by Chris Garlock