NYC Hotels Try To Snatch Back A Pay Raise

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http://www.laborradio.org/node/10899

By Doug Cunningham

Hotels in New York City are trying to renege on a 3.5% pay raise scheduled to start for hotel workers in July. The Hotel Association of New York is claiming hard times makes it impossible to pay the raise. The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, though, isn’t ready to give up the raise. It says hotels in New York City have had 10 very prosperous years and should have set some money aside for hard times. Since December 4,000 hotel workers have been laid off in New York City.

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