Employees at three hotels near major New York airports went on strike yesterday claiming that hotel management fiercely opposed their recent attempts to join the New York Hotel Trades Council. Union officials accuse hotel owners of firing 10 employees active in organizing the union drive, as well as using bribery and even threatened physical violence to oppose unionization. Representatives of the hotel management say that they run their businesses like a family and offer pay and benefits equivalent to any union package.
See "Workers Strike in Effort to Unionize Three Airport Hotels", Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times, September 22, 2004