thats the ticket

 a big tute
  double barrel bravo   
for
 SF
   HOTEL local prez

mike casey 

thrown in a paddy wagon  
  for doin a righteous thing ....

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"Most Bay Area residents 
may have celebrated Labor
Day with prodigious quantities
 of beer and
barbecue,
 but some marked it the old-fashioned way
-- by getting arrested"

"Sixty-one union members 
and sympathizers staged a
sit-down at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
 at Union Square
in San Francisco 
to call attention to a yearlong
dispute with 14 hotels 
over new labor contracts"

"They were arrested, 
charged with misdemeanors 
for
interfering with a place of business,
 and released."

"As police fitted them 
with plastic handcuffs,
several hundred pickets 
marched on Stockton Street,
chanting union songs and slogans"

"Mike Casey,
 the president of Local Two 
of UNITE
HERE!, the union representing
 Bay Area HOTEL
employees in the conflict,
 was one of those
arrested."




"I think they're starting 
to realize that there's
no stopping time,
 that we're going 
to get to a 2006
expiration one way 
or the other
 so they might as
well get a little labor peace
    out of the deal,"
                 Casey said.

"The 2006 expiration date 
would match the cycle 
of
hotel contracts 
in New York, Chicago, Toronto,
Monterey and other cities,
 and significantly
enhance the local union's 
clout with national
chains."








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