Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 86, Issue 36

[J Mills (jrwmills]

Tom,

I agree.  Unions are not always right and management is not always wrong.
And for a union to even ask a conference to change venues at the last minute
shows disregard for the rights (and pocketbooks)  of the conference
organizers and attendees.


Jeannette Watling-Mills
Living In Community Network, Sarasota, FL

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>> In regards to the Association's commitment to a contract with the
>> hotel and the mutual commitment of the Association and many of the
>> associated members to achieve our vision and goals by working our way
>> through discussion to achieve a mutually agreeable consensus, it
>> appears to me that the UNITE HERE principles are quite contradictory
>> to the principles of the Association.
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>> If the UNITE HERE organization insists that it remain adamantly &
>> unequivocally opposed to working a path through mediation towards any
>> improvement of the labor situation for its members short of taking
>> total control of the hotel business, then I cannot support it
>> personally and I fully support Craig's and Lisa's position as
>> presented in the referenced hyperlink.
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>> I look forward to seeing you all at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in
>> June.
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>> Tom Lofft
>> Liberty Village, MD