City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0083R

• File #: 08-0083R
• Version: 0
• Name: In Support of B-More United
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/27/2008
• In control: Labor Subcommittee
• Final action: 2/23/2009
• Title: In Support of B-More United FOR the purpose of expressing support for the B-More United Campaign of the cooks, housekeepers, servers, and banquet staff at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel and their boycott of the hotel in demand of adequate rights, job security, decent wages, affordable health care, and a pension plan.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, William H. Cole, IV, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/23/2009	0	City Council	Adopted
2/9/2009	0	Labor Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably
2/9/2009	0	City Council	Held for 1 meeting
2/9/2009	0	Labor Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
12/4/2008	0	Labor Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
At the request of: NAACP Baltimore City Branch of the and the Philadelphia Joint Board of
UNITEHERE!
Address: c/o Marvin L. “Doc” Cheatham, President, NAACP Baltimore City Branch, 8 W. 26th
Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Telephone: 410-366-3300


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Support of B-More United

FOR the purpose of expressing support for the B-More United Campaign of the cooks, housekeepers, servers, and banquet staff at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel and their boycott of the hotel in demand of adequate rights, job security, decent wages, affordable health care, and a pension plan.
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The unionized employees at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center hotel are employed by the Columbia Sussex Corporation. Since March 2006, the cooks, housekeepers, servers, and banquet staff have been trying to negotiate affordable healthcare benefits, safer workloads, job security, and retirement benefits. They have been working without a union contract since April 2006.

The Columbia Sussex Corporation, the ownership company of the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel, has unilaterally implemented their final offer to the employees. As a result, there has been a reduction in benefits, a reduction in compensation for banquet employees, an increase in workload for housekeepers, non-recognition of seniority rights for scheduling, and significant reductions in w...