On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:07:32 -0600, Mayo > wrote:

> On 9/2/2014 11:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:52:23 -0600, Mayo > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> Confusion reigns. I was a Brother Teamster when I worked as the
> >>> concierge at a hotel lifting a telephone hand set up to my ear.
> >>
> >> I can not imagine any reason a job of that sort needed to be unionized.
> >
> >
> > Unions will organize any place they can. I assume the Teamsters
> > organized the hotel workers. There is a solid reason that the
> > concierge would be a member. They want his dues money.
>
> Point.
>
> > One place I worked had the people packing plastic parts as members of
> > the International Laborers and Hod Carriers.
> >
> > Hotel workers are generally low on the pay scale. I don't know enough
> > about them to say a Union would be good or bad for them.
>
> I suppose the question is are they being oppressed to any great degree.

The housekeeping staff can be and is often abused. I would guess that
holds true in hotel kitchens too. Not so much at the front desk, but
you never know what they would expect you to do if the union wasn't
watching your back.


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