Donald Trump’s Grand Opening For His Hotel Is Greeted With A Boycott
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Donald Trump’s Grand Opening For His Hotel Is Greeted With A Boycott
“When he puts his name on a historic building on America’s main street, he mocks all of us.”
10/26/2016 06:50 pm ET
Dave Jamieson Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post
Donald Trump’s new luxury hotel in downtown Washington continues to attract the masses. If only they were looking for rooms.
As the real estate developer cut the ribbon at a grand opening ceremony inside the hotel Wednesday, anti-Trump protesters assembled outside its doors to denounce the Republican presidential nominee and call for a boycott of his properties. Trump called the grand opening a “metaphor” ― and indeed it was, though not the kind he imagined.
With less than two weeks before the election, Trump, slipping ever further in the polls, burned a precious few hours promoting his new hotel in a city with just three electoral votes that inevitably go to the Democrat on the ballot. The ceremony wasn’t a campaign event so much as another free advertisement for Trump properties.
But outside, the potential long-term damage to Trump’s brand was on full display.
“My family, before they never would have thought about whether they [should stay] at a Trump hotel,” said Deanna Cordova, a 34-year-old New Mexico native who joined the protest. “Now, it’s just boycotting anything that’s Trump related.”
Though it attracted Trump haters of all stripes, the D.C. picket line was a formal affair organized by local labor unions, stemming from a dispute in Las Vegas. Service workers at Trump’s hotel there voted for a union last year, but Trump and his partner have so far refused to bargain with the workers over a first contract, earning rebukes from federal regulators.............................................
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There’s A Boycott Going On At Donald Trump’s Fancy New Hotel
Trump has refused to negotiate with a housekeepers’ union, leading to picket lines at his hotels.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boycott-trump-dc-hotel_us_57ffed03e4b0162c043af9ae
10/13/2016 06:18 pm ET
Dave Jamieson Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post
The entrance to Donald Trump’s fancy new D.C. hotel was jam-packed on Thursday. Only the crowds weren’t clamoring for the hotel’s $18,000-a-night presidential suite or its $12 M&M’s. To the contrary: They were there to boycott the hotel and hurt Trump’s bottom line as much as possible.
A picket line of about two hundred D.C. workers snaked in front of the hotel entrance, discouraging any would-be guests from getting a room for the night. The boycott stems from a labor dispute at Trump’s luxury hotel in Las Vegas, where he’s refused to bargain with a union that won an election to represent workers there last year.
The union, Unite Here, is taking the rare step of organizing pickets at various Trump properties around the country, demanding that the Trump Organization recognize the Las Vegas workers’ union and start bargaining a first contract. Federal officials have accused the Trump Organization and its partners of violating workers’ rights on several occasions during the union campaign.
The row in Vegas has not helped Trump’s image as a businessman with a history of stiffing employees and contractors. Trump has claimed he’d be a better candidate for union workers than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. .......................
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