On 9/2/2014 1:01 PM, sf wrote:
> 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.

Having watched a fair number of the programs "Hotel Impossible" and
"Hotel Hell" I haven't seen much of that at all.

I have seen rampant disinterest in room condition from clueless owners
and a lack of training and standards.

> 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.

I'm not in that industry, but whatever those expectations might be they
certainly seem invisible to me as a guest.