A.N.S.W.E.R. 'Adopts' a Local 2 Hotel—San Francisco

A.N.S.W.E.R. 'Adopts' a Local 2 Hotel—San Francisco

Thursdays, October 28 to ???, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
480 Sutter between Powell & Stockton
(in Union Square, a short walk from the Powell St. BART station)

Weekly Picket Until Lock-Out Ends
Community Support Urged for Hotel Workers

Four thousand of San Francisco's hotel workers are in an intense struggle to save their health care coverage and pensions. After a 4-week lock-out, the big transnational hotel chains are going all-out to break the back of one of the strongest unions in the country. Despite warnings from the SF Board of Supervisors and even Mayor Gavin Newsom, the hotel chains aren't budging. The workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 2 have kept 24-hour picket lines outside of 14 of San Francisco's high-end hotels.

Labor and community support is needed to show solidarity with these workers and help keep the picket lines going. This labor battle represents the broader struggle to save affordable health benefits for all workers. The fierce fight that the hotel workers are waging to save their health care and other benefits will have a significant effect on the future of all working people in a period when more and more employers are trying to pass off rising health care costs to their workers.

ANSWER has "adopted" the Crowne Plaza Hotel picket line on Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Please join us to show our suppport of the Local 2 workers.

You can pick up an ANSWER sign that says: "Health Care is a Right!" and "Support the Hotel Workers" at the office at 2489 Mission St., Rm. 24, San Francisco.