O happy day ...
Today's contract signing between LAX Radisson Hotel and its workers (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 814) signals a new era in cooperation between management and labor.
This is a great contract, giving an immediate raise in salaries and free health care. Needless to say, the elation in the room was palpable.
The worker have struggled for 7 years and through two owners to arrive at this happy day.
Congratulations to the Radisson - this great day represents a new America - the pie is large enough for everyone to have a decent slice.
JUSTICE IS PROFITABLE!
The owners of the Radisson Los Angeles Airport Hotel have agreed to their first contract with the Unite Here Local 11 union, granting workers a $12.3 million increase in wages and expanding the availability of health benefits, union officials said Monday.The deal came after months of negotiations following the hotel workers’ card-check vote last fall to become part of the Unite Here union. Besides the $12.3 million total increase in wages, all employees working at least 25 hours a week will be eligible for health benefits, as well as access to a pension plan. Further details of the contract were not immediately available.
With this deal, the 580-room Radisson hotel becomes the fourth airport area hotel to sign a union contract; the other three are the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, the Four Points by Sheraton LAX Hotel and the Sheraton Gateway Hotel at LAX. Only one major airport-area hotel, the Hilton, has remained non-union.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
How Dare You!
How dare you interrupt my life!
How dare you get in my way!
Who do you think you are?!
Who's the "you" here?
It's the fog ... and the delays it caused at LAX.
I'm just amazed at how easily people express anger, resentment, frustration to the cameras, as if they and their little lives were the center of the universe, that everyone and everything ought to march to the beat of their drummer.
The age of entitlement?
We've managed to now raise several generations who are morally self-centered and feel mighty good about themselves ... the ultimate insanity of the self-esteem engine churning out best-selling books, propelling TV gurus to fame, and putting each of us into the center of our own little universe - alone, frightened and angry.
Ironically, the "United" States is becoming a nation of disconnected folks, united to none but themselves, which makes as much sense as tying a shoe with one hand.
The book, Bowling Alone and other such commentaries on the American Way, reveal serious fault lines in the Republic.
Which reminds me - the heart and soul of the American Dream was created in the furnace of religion and Enlightenment ... the deep reservoirs of faith and responsibility - driven by bright minds with high moral resolve.
Which reminds me - perhaps people of faith and Enlightenment can once again bring about renewal for the nation ... if we can capture again the words of Jesus: "You are the salt of the earth" and "You are the light of the world."
I wonder ... when the world looks at me, when it listens, or at least hears, my words, what does it think of Jesus, the One whom I profess to love and follow?
The nasty little world we're creating will be renewed only by people of great minds and hearts ... who transcend their lives because they belong to something vast and great - like the human race - and practice the walk of peace and contentment, with the creative energies to change things for the good.
Which reminds me ... if God is at work in all things for good, then I'll find good in the fog.
Wherever I am, wherever I go, "I am with you always" said Jesus.
Sit back, relax, take a deep breath.
Thank God for the fog!
How dare you get in my way!
Who do you think you are?!
Who's the "you" here?
It's the fog ... and the delays it caused at LAX.
I'm just amazed at how easily people express anger, resentment, frustration to the cameras, as if they and their little lives were the center of the universe, that everyone and everything ought to march to the beat of their drummer.
The age of entitlement?
We've managed to now raise several generations who are morally self-centered and feel mighty good about themselves ... the ultimate insanity of the self-esteem engine churning out best-selling books, propelling TV gurus to fame, and putting each of us into the center of our own little universe - alone, frightened and angry.
Ironically, the "United" States is becoming a nation of disconnected folks, united to none but themselves, which makes as much sense as tying a shoe with one hand.
The book, Bowling Alone and other such commentaries on the American Way, reveal serious fault lines in the Republic.
Which reminds me - the heart and soul of the American Dream was created in the furnace of religion and Enlightenment ... the deep reservoirs of faith and responsibility - driven by bright minds with high moral resolve.
Which reminds me - perhaps people of faith and Enlightenment can once again bring about renewal for the nation ... if we can capture again the words of Jesus: "You are the salt of the earth" and "You are the light of the world."
I wonder ... when the world looks at me, when it listens, or at least hears, my words, what does it think of Jesus, the One whom I profess to love and follow?
The nasty little world we're creating will be renewed only by people of great minds and hearts ... who transcend their lives because they belong to something vast and great - like the human race - and practice the walk of peace and contentment, with the creative energies to change things for the good.
Which reminds me ... if God is at work in all things for good, then I'll find good in the fog.
Wherever I am, wherever I go, "I am with you always" said Jesus.
Sit back, relax, take a deep breath.
Thank God for the fog!
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