Posted on 11 November 2010. Tags: Democrats, Harry Reid, John Wilhelm, Tim Kaine, UNITEHERE
This will be interesting. The Democratic Party loves to come to the labor movement when it needs help or money. Harry Reid, for example, doesn’t win re-election without the help of the Culinary Workers i.e., UNITEHERE. And so:
A union representing hotel workers has asked the Democratic National Committee to rule out two of its four convention-site finalists, Cleveland and Charlotte, N.C., because they lack sufficient unionized hotel facilities.
"Among the DNC’s four finalist cities, only St. Louis and Minneapolis" have the capacity to "house a large portion of the delegates and other guests … in unionized hotels," John Wilhelm, president of the international UNITE HERE union of hotel and textile workers, wrote in a letter to DNC Chairman Tim Kaine.
Pretty simple question: does Reid use his influence and pick up the phone to Tim Kaine to say, "it’s St. Louis or Minneapolis."
