Strike at Palace Hotel, San Francisco 11/09

On November 10, workers at the Palace Hotel walked off their jobs, announcing a 3-day strike and calling for a boycott of this hotel. Starwood Corporation, which owns the Palace Hotel, is using the current state of the economy as an excuse to slash their workers' health care and refuses to sign a fair contract. Workers are asking for a meager 1.5% increase from their previous contract to maintain their health care and pension benefits.

From 2006 to 2008, Starwood registered $1.9 billion in profits. In the first nine months of this year, it pocketed $180 million in profits and its stock price has rises 85% since January 2009. In 2008, supposedly a "down" year, Starwood CEO Fitz van Paaschen was paid $4.8 million. They have an obscene reason to celebrate, and we have a just reason to be in protest!

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[SanjuroYojimbo]

And how the fuck could you shove a megaphone at a baby's face and harass guests and patrons expecting them to support your cause? You guys are idiots. Do you even know what your fighting for?

[SanjuroYojimbo]

You guys are lemmings. If the Union says jump off a bridge and you will w/o asking. Stupid fuckers!!!