Chicago's Congress Hotel Strike Is Longest Active Strike In The Nation

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/8846

By Doug Cunningham

Workers with UNITE-HERE Local 1 recently marked the fifth year of their strike against the Congress Hotel – the longest running active strike in the country. The workers went on strike in June of 2003 against wage cuts. Other union hotel workers in Chicago now earn $13.90 an hour while the Congress still pays just $8.83. UNITE-HERE Local 1’s Henry Tamarin says the workers aren’t giving up despite the damage inflicted by owners of the Congress Hotel.

: “The Congress Hotel has afflicted injustice on our community for five years. It's absolutely awful what they have done to this community and to their workers."