26 Hotel Workers Defend Health Care
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Workers and supporters at the Holiday Inn in Concord, CA, demonstrate and march outside the hotel. Their union, UNITE HERE Local 2850, had been trying to negotiate a new contract for a year with new owner Kevin Akash, who was demanding that workers increase their payments for health insurance from $40 to $700 per month. The average wage for a roomcleaner at the hotel was $9.35 per hour, or about $1590 per month, before taxes. A month earlier workers voted to reject the company demand and called for a boycott of the hotel
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