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SIPTU Fair Hotels Campaign

thebaldsoprano · 2010-06-08 11:15:46

SIPTU have launched an initiative to market hotels that treat their staff well and offer them collective bargaining. If a hotel passes SIPTU's criteria it gets a 'fair hotel' badge, union members are then encouraged to use these hotels. It's an interesting change of tack given the recent shenanigans the public have had to…

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#52 03-07-2010 7:28pm

oscarBravo

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FTA69 wrote: »

Well lo and behold that hotel is on the list of "fair hotels"!

I suspected that would be the case - I assumed that they would take the fact of union recognition as a rubber stamp.

So basically, the "fair hotels" concept is meaningless, even by the standards it sets for itself.

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#53 04-07-2010 4:15pm

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oscarBravo wrote: »

I suspected that would be the case - I assumed that they would take the fact of union recognition as a rubber stamp.

So basically, the "fair hotels" concept is meaningless, even by the standards it sets for itself.

Evidently.

On the plus side of working in such a sh*thole, I did manage to eat my own body weight in luxury goods out of the store-room. There is nothing as sweet as illicit smoked salmon.

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