Holiday Inn Express Breaks Settlement Fires Workers!

Holiday Inn Express Repudiated Settlement Agreement 

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Rally on Wedensday March 10th from 4-6pm, Holiday Inn Express Latham

As all of you know on January 28th, we met and celebrated the worker's victory at the Holiday Inn Express, Latham. An NLRB settlement had been reached including the reinstatement of the fired workers, full back pay and a new election. A month later the hotel is completely disregarding the law and the conditions we all fought so hard for.

On Feburary 4th, the strikers made a unconditional request to return to work. Federal Labor Law requires immediate reinstatement of Unfair Labor Practice Strikers, but instead, the company largely avoided their communications and stalled. Finally, on 2/19, the hotel called the strikers and told them to attend a meeting on 2/22. We had all assumed that this meeting was intended to return the strikers to work. In fact, we held off on filing new Unfair Labor Practice charges for back pay for the intervening two weeks as a sign of good faith.

Instead, at this meeting the HR Manager fired the strikers and informed them that new management had taken over and told them they could apply to the new company. To date, only two strikers were reinstated, the rest have not. In addition, Craig Prusky, one of the original fired workers was once again terminated from his job.

This is clearly Morrell's latest scheme to refuse to respect the employees' right to organize. With this latest move, Morrell may be positioning himself as the greatest labor law violator in the US, if he hadn't already achieved that dubious distinction.

The union has made multiple attempts to explain to the "new management" that it is responsible for the company's past actions. There disregard for these worker's rights leave us no choice but to renew our campaign against Morrell and his union busting behavior.

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Join us for a huge public rally at the Holiday Inn Express at, on Wednesday, 3/10, from 4-6, at 400 Old Loudon Rd in Latham.