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Union offers to end 10-year strike at Congress Plaza Hotel
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jun 01, 2013 10:02am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | STEFANO ESPOSITO AND JON SEIDEL |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Thursday, May 30, 2013 02:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Northwest Side father of three spent 23 years working inside the Congress Plaza Hotel, and then another 10 — 25 hours each week — picketing outside the downtown hotel that has counted President Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Springsteen among its clients.
After a decade of protest, the worker — who didn’t want his name in print because he’s worried about his future at the hotel — said he’s prepared to come back, even at the $8.40 an hour he was making before he and 130 other union workers walked off the job in June 2003.
Why? He needs the money.
“There I have seniority,” said the 54-year-old worker, who has a second job at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers downtown. “If I go to another job, it’s difficult. They will give me one to two days a week and different shifts.”
Striking union employees at the hotel delivered an “unconditional offer to return to work” Wednesday, surprising hotel management and ending what the union calls the longest hotel strike in history. |
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