Tag Archives: Columbia Sussex

Hotel Workers Picket during Fur Rondy (press release)

UNITE HERE Local 878 is picketing during Anchorage Fur Rendezvous to ask Anchorage residents and visitors to honor worker-sponsored boycotts of the Anchorage Hilton & Sheraton hotels.
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Sheraton Anchorage illegally fires four workers

The Sheraton Anchorage has illegally fired four workers for engaging in protected union activity. The Sheraton is one of two hotels -- the other being the Anchorage Hilton -- under boycott for unfair labor practices & refusal to bargain in good faith.
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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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In solidarity with Hilton workers

Hotel Workers Rising March in Anchorage on September 30 (photos & slidehow), with some history of Hilton Anchorage owner Columbia Sussex and its CEO, Bill Yung; plus, the physical toll of cleaning 17 rooms a day.
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