Workers at Four More Chicago Hotels Authorize Strike Action

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Submitted by Jesse Russell on August 23, 2010 - 7:11am
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Workers at four more Chicago hotels have voted to authorize strike action. The vote gives the negotiating committee the power to call a strike at the Chicago Hilton, Hilton O’Hare, the Palmer House Hilton, and the Drake. Three groups of workers represented by UNITE-Here have voted in favor of strike action since October of 2009. That brings the total number of hotels that could see strike action to more than a dozen. Union contracts with 31 hotels in downtown Chicago expired last August.