SF Rally & March For Marriott Hotel Strikers “One Job Is Enough"

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Date:

Saturday, October 20, 2018

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Protest

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Unite Here Local 2

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Local 2 Justice Plaza Market Street between 3rd & 4th Streets
San Francisco

10/20 SF Rally & March For Marriott Hotel Strikers “One Job Is Enough"
http://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-20-18-OneJobRallyFlier.pdf

One Job Should be Enough!

Rally & March in Support of Striking Marriott Workers

Saturday, October 20th
9:00 AM
Meet at Local 2 Justice Plaza Market Street between 3rd & 4th Streets

For more information on the strike check out https://onejob.org/. OPEIU 29 AFL-CIO 11

https://onejob.org

SF Marriott Workers Strike: A Class Battle For All Workers
https://youtu.be/R8M0mrxJpxA
Twenty five hundred Marriott workers went on strike in San Francisco on October 4, 2018 at 7 Marriott owned hotels in the city. This is part of a national strike of United HERE at Marriotts in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Hawaii, San Francisco and other cities.
San Francisco members of Unite Here Local 2 at the Marriott talked about why they are on strike and the effect of the strike on their convention hotel which is usually 100% full because of convention business.
Last year, Marriott made $1.37 billion and they are the largest hotel chain in the world after they bought the Starwood group. Workers at the Marriott hotel spent 5 years trying to organize the union against the union busting tactics of the corporation but we eventually successful.
Many of these workers have to work two and three jobs to survive in the Bay Area and this has effects on their families and health and safety. They also face long hours commuting to their jobs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsEyvHK4X1U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYQ_-pf4aE
Oakland Airport Unite Here 2850 Fast Food Workers Fight Union Busting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-BarHDMqR8
The ZIM'S HERE Local 2 San Francisco Workers Shut It Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI8orA3Cg0o
SF Unite-Here Local 2 Hotel Workers Rally & March On Expiration Of Their 2009 Contract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7xHpTBiT6M
SF 2014 Labor Day March Picket Union Busting Fisherman Wharf Hyatt and Radisson Hotels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCAL0ELEW8
35th Anniversary of the 1980 San Francisco Unite Here Local 2 Hotel Strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u622q87NDR0
SF HERE Local 2 Hotel Workers Shut It Down In 1980 "Union Town”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0cY8XIKXE
For more information:
http://www.facebook.com/unitehere2/
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org

For more information: https://onejob.org

Added to the calendar on Sun, Oct 14, 2018 5:57PM

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by Solidarity Forever

Mon, Oct 15, 2018 9:20PM

From a flyer being handed out by striking workers at the Sheraton Palace hotel at Market and New Montgomery, the workers are on strike in San Francisco at:
Courtyard Marriott (299 2d Street, near baseball stadium)
Palace Hotel by Marriott (Market and New Montgomery)
San Francisco Marriott Marquis (4th and Mission Streets)
San Francisco Marriott Union Square (Sutter at Powell)
St. Regis Hotel (125 Third Street)
W San Francisco by Marriott (181 Third Street)
Westin St Francis at Union Square (Powell and Geary)
Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf (555 North Point)
Le Meridien (333 Battery at Clay)
For more information, see https://www.marriotttravelalert.org/
Marriott brands are over 2 dozen hotels bought by Marriott.

Those of us who live and/or work near the above hotels get to not only walk the picketline with our fellow workers as we must as a matter of conscience and to tell the scabs and hotel patrons that "picket lines mean don't cross" but also to hear the chants all day long, often with great drums provided by the strikers both home made and manufactured musical instruments, that go as follows:
All Day, All Night; Local 2 is On Strike
Check out, Don't check in; Local 2 is On Strike
What do we want; a union contract; when do we want it, now!
My favorite variation is of course:
All Day, All Night; Labor Fights Back!

For more information: https://www.marriotttravelalert.org/

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