The attack on them is an attack on all workers

The union-busting employer at Pacific Beach Hotel, HTH Corporation, is doing everything it can to get rid of the ILWU as collective bargainging representative for the workers at Pacific Beach. How does this affect the rest of us? As part of the ILWU, our wages, benefits, working conditions, and voice on the job are protected by law. HTH is acting as if it is above the law. If HTH gets away with breaking the law, what’s going to stop other employers from trying to do the same to us?

Pacific Beach Hotel workers held an action on Halloween eve to protest the second termination of hotel employees within a oneyear period. Watch a video of their protest at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lXDcV7-TFl0

(Above) A community delegation prepares to ask to speak with HTH Corporation Regional Vice President Robert “Mick” Minicola (above). After meeting with him briefly in the lobby, UH Professor Raymond Liongson said he was surprised by Minicola’s rude treatment of the visitors.

“Why does the company do this, when we work so hard,” asked ILWU negotiating committee member and housekeeper Lerma Ulep at a “Keep the Workers Working” Rally held on September 20, 2007. “We don’t deserve this,” she added, her voice trembling and tears filling her eyes. Watch the ILWU commercial featuring Lerma and other Pacific Beach Hotel workers at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Jc_htsWCVdM .

Participants at the ILWU Labor Institute held Oct. 15-19, 2007 wrote over 400 letters to HTH Corporation, urging the company to rehire all their workers at the Pacific Beach Hotel and agree to a fair union contract.

ILWU Local 142 President Fred Galdones leads community supporters at the December 20 rally to kick-off donations to the ILWU Pacific Beach Workers Free Store.