The Hotel Trades Council wants it both ways: It’s seeking to force all city hotels to use union-only labor, with no outside contracting allowed.
The Hotel Trades Council spent more than $700,000 in contracts for maintenance and cleaning services over the past 10 years.The Hotel Trades Council wants it both ways: It’s seeking to force all city hotels to use union-only labor, with no outside contracting allowed — even as the union itself spends
The HTC spent more than $700,000 in contracts for maintenance and cleaning services over the past 10 years, plus millions more on legal, consultant and computer services. Meanwhile, City Councilwoman Julie Menin and the HTC push the unionization bill as aiming chiefly to curb sex trafficking and other criminal behavior, hence the deceptive name, the “Safe Hotel Act.”Yet the American Hotel and Lodging Association points out, most hotel- or motel-related 311 complaints are “related to illegal parking, noise, dumping, elevator outages, blocked driveways and issues associated with people experiencing homelessness.
Forcing the city’s 400 non-union hotels to hand over management of their workforces to the HTC would do nothing to solve these problems.If anti-Israel loons take over Democrats’ convention, liberals only have themselves to blamecrime crisis and COVID lockdowns. The bill is another bullet the city’s economy and a naked gift to a special interest, putting every hotel in town under one union’s thumb.Lyin’ Ex-Rep. George Santos admits he’s ‘terrified’ as he faces prison, blames ‘America’s Next Top Model’ for ‘insecurities’Damning impeachment report shows why Dems were desperate to get rid of corrupt Biden
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