Comments on: Gay journalists to face union picket line

By: Hotel Gay

Hotel Gay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:16:30 +0000

Banquet Employees, you know the ones, who serve you food at Human Rights Campaign Dinners, make upwards of 100K a year in wages and gratuities in big cities like DC, New York, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco while working an average of 25 hours a week. I am sure a lot of folks would love that pay and schedule.

By: Hotel Gay

Hotel Gay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:13:31 +0000

Walter,

For someone who is insterested in class equality, sexist and derogatory terms such as “Chambermaid” and “Bell Hop” show how behind the times you are.

Not even a “mean greedy” Hotel Owner uses such terms.

By: Hotel Gay

Hotel Gay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:09:23 +0000

I find it ironic that the Union that is suppose to represent the interests of the workers is actively working to force their membership onto unemployment lines with their boycott. Had NLGJA cancelled not only would the Hotel pockets $150,000 in cancellation fees and would have saved over $10,000 in labor costs since the Room Attendants, Bell Attendants, Cooks and Banquet Personnel would have been on LAY OFF instead of working. For every Hotel worker who has a full schedule, thank your employer. For every hotel worker on unemployment and barely making ends meet, thank your Union and their boycott and fool hardy actions like this.

Additionally, get the terms right, Chambermaids, Bell Hops are derogitory terms. Room Attendant and Bell Person is correct.

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:25:44 +0000

BTW, I am signing my actual name, as opposed to someone who hides behind the name of a dead labor leader.

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:24:35 +0000

Mr. Reuther, try re-reading what I actually wrote. NLGJA could not have changed venues at such a late date without bankrupting themselves. You are lying if you say that is a reasonable thing for the unions to expect. If you refuse to deal with reality even minimally, then you are saying in effect that you’d rather lose to preserve your griping rights.

I’m not sure why disagreeing with you is a sign that I don’t work for a living. As a matter of fact, I am a union member myself–AFGE Local 12. But I did not turn my brain in when I signed up. If the plight of the workers is so dire, then the unions should be more constructive than to demand that NLGJA bankrupt itself to show its support.

By: David in Atlanta

David in Atlanta — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:43:37 +0000

Hotel housekeepers make more money than professional journalists?
I’d love to live in your world.

By: Coverage of 2010 NLGJA Convention « The NLGJA Blog

Coverage of 2010 NLGJA Convention « The NLGJA Blog — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:01:11 +0000

[...] journalists to face union picket line” was the headline of the Washington Blade article in anticipation of the [...]

By: Andrea B.

Andrea B. — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:32:21 +0000

How to ensure that when the right wing get there assault on gay rights underway, that the gays have no friends.

By: Gay and Lesbian Journalists to Bust Boycott by Hotel Workers in Order to Hold Their Conference as Planned « The Still Blue Project

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:57:15 +0000

[...] Therefore imagine my utter shock and disgust when I read the following from The Washington Blade: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/09/01/gay-journalists-to-face-union-picket-line/ [...]

By: Lindoro

Lindoro — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:41:26 +0000

That;s your problem there, you are like a black member of the KKK; you have gone to bed with the one group that, if left to their own devices would legislate you out of existence while at the same time taking your vote and your money happily.