Just back from the celebratio
n at Trinity: Congratulations to the workers at the Westin, who have survived a two-year standoff and today ratified their new contract in a 114-4 vote! Here’s the Projo article:
PROVIDENCE — In a move that brings an end to a two-year labor dispute that produced rallies and a consumer boycott of the Westin Providence hotel, Unite Here union employees voted 114 to 4 Tuesday to ratify a new three-year contract that gradually erases a 20-percent pay cut and immediately returns half of the 54 employees who were laid off.