Occupy Princeton and Princeton for Worker Rights Speak Out Against HEI Sweatshop Hotels

As the Princeton Trustees gathered for a meeting on Friday, Dec. 16th, Occupy Princeton (www.occupyprinceton.net) and Princeton for Worker Rights spoke out against HEI Hospitality's unethical business practices and urged Princeton University to follow Yale and Brown's lead in terminating investments in the corporation.

In an industry that delivers high luxury to its guests, HEI workers struggle to make ends meet. They work long hours performing jobs that tax their health, even while many are unable to afford health plans offered to them. And when they organize collectively, workers are often confronted with sophisticated campaigns of coercion and litigation, designed to deter them from having a say in the decisions that affect them.

Full script:
Parents and prospective students,
Princeton may use your tuition dollars to fund sweatshop hotels that abuse their workers. Princeton's investment in HEI Hospitality allows it to profit off of the exploitation of workers. Yale and Brown have decided not to reinvest in HEI Hospitality. Princeton should do the same. Princeton's motto is, "In the nation's service." Princeton's trustees are not in the nation's service. They are in the service of sweatshops. In whose service will you be?

See also: http://www.occupyprinceton.net/?p=123
For more information on HEI workers' struggle: http://www.heiworkersrising.org

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[HybridD91]

@scrum7 I wonder how many of them even know what it's like to be poor.

[hipser]

Hi Aleks!

[scrum7]

i would bet my life that the tall blonde wouldnt give that jacket to a freezing homeless person who needed a coat. classic champagne socialists

[scrum7]

lol, i love how the tall blonde is protesting in her expensive gray jacket that her rich parents probably bought her..... these kids are embarrassing themselves....... put your (parent's) money where your mouth is, clowns. you're a poor reflection of a fine institution