SEATTLE (Oct. 29) — Dozens of workers from the Edgewater Hotel, community allies and UNITE HERE Local 8 members from around the city marched outside the hotel on Oct. 25 in support of better wages, continued healthcare, job security and respect on the job. Plus, for the first time ever, supporters of the hotel’s workers took their message to the waterside of the hotel — on a boat!
Some 200 workers at one of Seattle’s most iconic — and expensive — hotels are seeking the same standards that workers at the city’s other unionized hotels have: living wages, continued benefits and job security, which includes a guarantee that they can keep their jobs if the hotel is sold. Such a guarantee is commonly found in union contracts in Seattle, and ensures that good union jobs won’t be replaced with poverty wage jobs in the future.
But after more than a year of contract negotiations, Edgewater management has refused to agree to such a contract.
Now Edgewater workers are taking action and are urging their supporters in the community to stand with them. Here’s what you can do:
Thank you for supporting Edgewater workers. For more information, email Local 8’s Anita Nath or call her at 206-224-5738.
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