"This was the first time I've ever been in trouble," she said in Spanish through a translator. "They try to intimidate me. And it's very intimidating for me because I love working there, and I've always been a good employee.
"But we are people who are just trying to live. I'm young, but I don't feel good about the future, and it gets harder every day," she added.
She was one of hundreds of hotel workers, community leaders, union advocates and others who marched Saturday from Monument Circle to the Statehouse to support about 400 hotel workers at the Westin Hotel and the Sheraton Hotel and Suites at Keystone Crossing who want to unionize.
Stories of hotel workers unable to afford their employer's health-care plans or needing to take second jobs to pay their share of the health-care costs were numerous, along with other frustrations.
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What does U.S. Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin have to do with a copper strike in Mexico?
In Cananea, a small town about 50 miles south of the border, some 1,287 copper miners are battling one of Mexico’s largest corporations – Grupo Mexico. The chief financial officer of Grupo Mexico is J. Eduardo Gonzalez. Gonzalez was once an executive of the Mexican subsidiary of Kimberly Clark, the paper company founded by the Sensenbrenner family.
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UNITE HERE announced last week that it will campaign across North America to save nearly 600 Canadian manufacturing jobs at a Montreal plant that Men’s Wearhouse announced it would close in July. Members of the CMRJB have leafleted hundreds of shoppers at MW stores across our region. CMRJB members have and will always fight for the jobs of our brothers and sisters in UNITE HERE. Solidarity works! Pictured from left: Jack Hawkinson, Steve Gallos, Lyle Frankie & Jerry Commeau Members of Local 17.
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Workers stepped up their fight for justice at Cintas, launching a new Coalition of Injured Cintas Workers and holding vigils across the country in commemoration of Eleazar Torres-Gomez’s death one year ago. The nationwide Coalition is comprised of former and current Cintas employees dedicated to cleaning up serious hazards—some potentially lethal—at the company’s 400 facilities.
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MSNBC's David Shuster takes a look at the influence of NAFTA in the Pennsylvania primary and the effect it might have on Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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