Posted on 02/25/2012 10:38:03 AM PST by Sasparilla
Workers at a downtown hotel charge that union goons resorted to outrageous tactics to browbeat them into joining their ranks — going so far as to photograph a female staffer as she changed clothes in an employee locker room, apparently to blackmail her. “I was wearing my uniform pants and my bra and holding my shirt to put it on when they started snapping pictures,” front-desk worker Gisel Rodriguez, 28, recalled of the alleged sneak attack at the SoHo Courtyard Marriott in December. “I was furious, really didn’t know what to do,’’ she said. “They said, ‘We’re allowed to be here,’ and clicked away.”
Rodriguez said she believes the union reps wanted to use the photos “as blackmail, to get us to sign.” She and two colleagues — security guard David Alexander and front-desk worker Coralina Alcantara — have since filed federal charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Marriott and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council claiming intimidation, harassment and coercion. The trio accuses the union’s local reps, including organizer Julia Rybak, of carrying on a months-long abusive and intrusive campaign that destroyed the family-like work environment for the small hotel’s 35 to 40 employees.
Union spokesman John Turchiano blasted the charges as “bogus and laughable.” “I’m 100 percent confident the [NLRB] will throw out the charges. Any of our hundreds of members who know the organizers involved here know how absurd these charges are,’’ he said.
Marriott management, which deals with the union at some of its other hotels, has taken the union’s side, persecuting the SoHo employees after they complained, the workers allege. SoHo Marriott management did not return calls. Rodriguez, who has worked for Marriott Corp. for five years, said the bizarre photo incident occurred one afternoon as she was leaving work...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hotel_goon_service_EaNt2eSyj6ait83b6nORrM
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She’s guilty of somethin
Marriott should fire them and they should be arrested and charged.
NLRB should have no voice in the matter.
a couple of union thugs ought to have an unfortunate accident in a dark alley some night, perhaps involving kneecaps...
Sue them personally and sue the union.
Park next to the car of one of the people that took the photos.
Then get out and let the air out of all 4 tires.
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