The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (Local 1) is still on strike, dragging out a fight with the Congress Hotel (Congress and Michigan) that started in early June. Twenty workers were arrested on Labor Day for blocking Michigan Avenue, and currently the striking workers -- many of them immigrants -- remain camped outside the entrance, encouraging walk-ups to go elsewhere, providing lists of unionized hotels. If you want to help, contact HERE.

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