The dispute led to a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels Corp. It got more attention after President Obama nominated Penny Pritzker, whose family founded the hotel chain, to be commerce secretary. At one point, Hyatt turned winter heat lamps on Chicago pickets as summer temperatures neared triple digits.
After a blistering four-year labor battle, Hyatt Hotels Corp. and workers union Unite Here reached a tentative settlement that will give employees pay and benefits increases for nearly a decade, going back to 2009 and reaching forward to mid-2018.
Des Plaines is mulling a review of how the Rivers Casino deal came to be.
The longest strike in America ended yesterday when the union representing workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago tacitly admitted defeat at the hands of an owner whose iron resolve to break the strike seemed stronger than his desire to turn a profit.
A strike at the Congress Plaza Hotel in downtown Chicago that lasted 10 years has ended.
One of the longest labor strikes has finally come to an end. After nearly 10 years, hospitality workers at Chicago’s Congress Plaza Hotel have put down the picket signs. But getting back to work might not be so easy.
The nearly decade-long worker strike at the Congress Hotel has reportedly come to an end.