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E-PrinceLast week, members of Princeton for Workers’ Rights (PWR) protested alleged University investments in HEI Hotels & Resorts after learning that employees were publicly voicing their discontent with HEI’s employment practices and unionization policies.
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seriously, even though this is a halfway decent idea, the ed board's 'panacea' of recommending the creation of a committee for everything is ridiculous. Can you guys go one week without resorting to that 'policy solution'? I know bureaucracy cast as 'informed, diverse participation of all interested stakeholders' is all the rage these days, but come on.
Comparing investment in a company without a unionized workforce to investing in a company that makes money in part thanks to dictator with a long list of human rights violations is completely ridiculous. The point of the article aside, the first paragraph renders this as terrible reporting. PWR also should not step on the bandwagon of any human-rights related investment outcries. UNITE Here, the union who is complaining about its inablity to organize HIE workers, has a terrible history of its own human rights violations. UNITE is known to resort to Jimmy Hoffa style strong arm tactics to get its way, which would include coercing, blackmailing, or deceiving the workers into supporting the union (by deceiving, I mean somethign like telling a worker who does not understand English that he must sign document to get his pay check, when the document is instead the petition to organize).
re: 07 -- I look forward to any evidence you can provide to substantiate your ridiculous anti-union allegations.
http://union-free.blogspot.com/2008/03/cintas-r...
http://unitehereexposed.com/
re: 9:48 -- your first website (which hasn't been updated in almost a year) is from a blogger named "Labor Lawyers for Management" and does nothing more than catalog the charges in a frivolous lawsuit. "Unpersuasive" is too kind; this fails even as propaganda.
Your second, slicker website is put together by Richard Berman, one of the most notorious and unethical lobbyists in the all of DC. Check out http://www.bermanexposed.org/ for more background on the misinformation he spreads. You're citing a guy who still denies that second-hand smoke causes cancer?? Good luck with that.
When you come up with some credible sources, then we'll talk.
@Supporter - My "evidence" is based on conversations with numerous workers in the Laundry and Uniform industry--laborers in the plants, drivers and sales reps, mid-mgmt, and CEOs. It is also based on conversations with former UNITE members, noted labor lawyers in the field, and aids to senior politicians on questions related to labor regulations. The aforementioned comment about fooling non-English speakers signing documents was from a conversation was from the CEO of large uniform co. Obviously, All of these sources (except those from UNITE) are noticeably biased against unions, so feel free to disregard my word-of-mouth in favor of the very pro-union unions.
Unfortunately, most material evidence is more than a link to an internet site, but this is at least a small start.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idU...
http://union-free.blogspot.com/2008/03/cintas-f...
(If the original defamation lawsuit filed by cintas in 2004 was frivolousit probably wouldn't still be coming up in present-day lawsuits)
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/492839/PICHLER-et-a...
http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2006/11/hotel_labor_em...
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idU...
Not the most sinister thing, but if this was a union with a good reputation, they wouldn't be ordered to pay workers $2,500 as compensation for their illegal actions (~$5M total)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/local-hos...
http://edlabor.house.gov/testimony/020807Jennif...
I would welcome you to present evidence that companies like HIE are actually up to no good, without resorting to allegations that ultimately came from UNITE (and by up to no good, I mean worse than the average corporation--as incidents arise in every business that are less than perfect)