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Flight Attendants Support Pacific Beach Hotel Workers
CWA District 9 Conference attendees rally support for Pacific Beach Hotel workers
[01.23.08] -- Flight Attendants from Aloha, Hawaiian, United and Northwest Airlines joined over 150 fellow Union members of CWA to rally support for members of ILWU Local 142 in front of the Pacific Beach Hotel.
Your MEC Officers encourage you to boycott HTH Corporation, which owns and operates the Pacific Beach Hotel, and the Pagoda Hotel & Restaurant.
Left Photo: Grace Lee (ALO Council 54 Scheduling/PBS Chair), Darren Shiroma (UAL Council 12 LAX President), and Gail Kim-Moe (ALO Council 54 President) support ILWU members in Waikiki.
Last December, Robert Minicola, regional vice president of operations for HTH Corporation said, "We plan to hire approximately 90 percent of the managers and 90 percent of the employees..."
"The 10 percent of workers who haven't been offered jobs are primarily union supporters," ILWU spokesperson David Mori said, adding that the union is still trying to negotiate adequate separation for workers whose jobs have been eliminated in the changeover.
The ILWU has asked the NLRB to hear charges that hotel property owners and managers have refused to bargain in good faith and have undermined the process, Mori said. There are also several charges related to HTH Corp.'s decision to make all workers reapply for their jobs during the management transition.
Mori said that other employees are dissatisfied because they have been offered work at greatly reduced wages.
Rally To Support Pacific Beach Hotel Workers
Honolulu Advertiser Staff
[01.23.08] -- More than a hundred union members of Communication Workers of America District 9 in Honolulu for their annual meeting this week plan to rally in support of Pacific Beach Hotel workers from noon to 1 p.m. today in front of the hotel.
Hotel owner HTH Corp. has been accused of multiple violations of federal labor law, including discrimination against union supporters and the refusal to recognize the workers' government-certified vote for representation with the union of their choice — ILWU Local 142.
CWA District 9 membership is comprised of workers from California, Nevada and Hawai'i. Members include telephone workers, flight attendants, television and radio technicians, newspaper workers, and others about 650,000 nationwide.
"We were very moved and sincerely grateful when CWA called and said that their members would like to do an action in support of the Pacific Beach Hotel workers, especially on a day when the hotel is holding an 'appreciation party' for its employees," said ILWU Local 142 spokesman Dave Mori.
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